About This Artwork

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879–1940

Still Life with Fragments, 1925

Oil and watercolor on cardboard
17 x 28 1/2 in. (43.1 x 72.4 cm)
Bequest of Richard S. Zeisler, 2007.278

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Paul Klee: A Retrospective Exhibition, February 17-June 30, 1967.

Cologne, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, 1979.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paul Klee, February 4-May 5 1987; traveled to The Cleveland Museum of Art, June 10-August 1987.

Berne, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee, September–December 1987.

Essen, Museum Folkwang, Bauhaus: Dessau – Chicago – New York, August 11-November 12, 2000.

Publication History

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Paul Klee: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1967).

Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, exh. cat. (Cologne: Kunsthalle, 1979).

The Museum of Modern Art, Paul Klee, exh. cat. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987).

Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee, exh. cat. (Berne: Kunstmuseum, 1987).

Mark Roskill, Klee, Kandinsky, and the Thought of their Time: A Critical Perspective (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992).

Museum Folkwang, Bauhaus: Dessau – Chicago – New York, exh. cat. (Essen: Museum Folkwang, 2000).

Ownership History

Galerie Leiris, Paris. Sold to Berggruen & Cie., Paris, by June 24, 1954; sold to Richard Zeisler, New York, June 24, 1954 [receipt in curatorial file].