About This Artwork
Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940
Dance to the Sound of Bells, Oboes and Violin, 1929
Watercolor, with pen and brush and brown ink on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper.
310 x 458 mm (max.) (primary support); 442 x 591 mm (secondary support)
Signed upper center: "Klee"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, 1996.626
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, Arts Club, "Paul Klee: Works from Chicago Collections," January 16-February 20, 1962, cat. 31.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, December 20, 1969–February 1, 1970, n. p., cat. 99.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "In the Mind's Eye: Dada and Surrealism," December 1, 1984-January 27, 1985.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection," February 23-April 14, 1985, pp. 69 and 110, cat. 76, fig. 59.
Publication History
Christina Kröll, Die Bildtitel Paul Klees: Eine Studie zur Beziehung von Bild und Sprache in der Kunst des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (Bonn, 1968), p. 32.
Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné 5 (Bern, 2001), p. 354, no. 4942 (ill.).
Ownership History
By descent to the artist's wife, Lily Klee (1876-1946), Bern [Paul Klee Foundation 2001]; Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, to 1948 [Paul Klee Foundation 2001]. Buchholz Gallery, New York, about 1948 [Paul Klee Foundation 2001]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1996.