About This Artwork

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879–1940

Stakim, c. 1928

Oil on plaster
8 x 12 3/4 in. (20.3 x 32.4 cm)
Signed, u.l.: "Klee"
Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman, 1948.560

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Basel, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, October 37-November 24, 1935, no. 45.New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Fifth Selection of Works by Paul Klee, March-June 1942, no. 34.

Publication History

Will Grohmann, Paul Klee (New York, 1954), p. 266.Jürg Spiller, ed., Paul Klee. Das bildnerische Denken. Form- und Gestaltungslehre, vol. 1 (Basel/Stuttgart, 1956).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Art Institute (Chicago, 1961), p. 251.Richard Verdi, “Musical Influences on the Art of Paul Klee,” Museum Studies 3 (1968), pp. 84, 87 (ill.).

Richard Verdi, “Musikalische Einflüsse bei Klee,” Melos XL (January-February 1973), pl. 9.

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century EuropeanPaintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 49, no. 2C10.

Ownership History

Galerie Simon (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris, 1931 to 1938 [no. 01164, photo no. 16024]. Karl Nierendorf, New York, by 1942 [New York 1942 exh. cat.]. Henry Kleemann, New York. Sold, Elizabeth Chapman, Chicago [according to a letter from Mrs. Chapman in curatorial file]. Given by her to the Art Institute, 1948.