Paul Klee

Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin (on consignment from the artist from December 1932 and until circa January-February 1933)

Galerie Simon, Paris (on consignment from the artist from December 1935 and until 27 December 1937)

Nierendorf Gallery, New York (on consignment from Galerie Simon, Paris from 27 December 1937 and until 1940)

Nierendorf Gallery, New York (acquired from Galerie Simon, Paris in 1940)

Cornelia Mackin (formerly Walcott), Blue Hill, Maine (probably acquired from the above circa 1941) 

Mr. and Mrs. H. Sage Walcott, Gloucester (acquired by descent from the above in 1973)

William Doyle Galleries, New York, 24 September 1980, lot 175

James Goodman Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection (acquired in October 1980)

Galerie Tarica, Paris

Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, Paris (acquired from the above on 24 June 1991)

Christie's, Paris, 23 February 2009, lot 6 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Lebendige deutsche Kunst, 1932-33, no. 51, p. 7

Kunsthalle Bern, Paul Klee, 1935, no. 70, p. 6

Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Klee, 1935, no. 58, p. 6; n.p., illustrated

London, New Burlington Galleries, The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1936, no. 152, p. 20 (titled Garden Face)

New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Paul Klee, 1941, no. 2 (titled Monument in a Garden)

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (extended loan, 1973)

Sarrebrucken, Saarland Museum and Karlsruhe, Prinz-Max-Palais, Paul Klee: Wachstum regt sich. Klees Zwiesprache mit der Natur, 1990, no. 129, p. 189, illustrated in color; p. 259

Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee, Klee rencontre Picasso, 2010, no. 

282, pp. 49, 148 and 270; p. 151, illustrated in color

Maria F. Popia, L’estetica musicale di Paul Klee, PhD Dissertation, Università degli Studi di Genova, 1999-2000, p. 258

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. VI, Bern, 2002, no. 5978, p. 280, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Neue Galerie; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection and Houston, The Menil Collection, Klee and America, 2006-07, p. 262, notes 8-10

Exh. Cat., Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee, Paul Klee und die Surrealisten, 2016-17, p. 60

Walter Fuchs, “»M. Francis Picabia nous dit...« – Paul Klee und die »Irrenkunst« in Frankreich,” Zwitscher-Maschine. Journal on Paul Klee, no. 10, July 2021, fig. 10, p. 82, illustrated (in installation photograph of London, New Burlington Galleries, The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1936)