Strange Glance

Modern Art

1930

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879–1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Strange Glance
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.l.: "Klee"
Dimensions: 65.4 × 38.1 cm (25 3/4 × 15 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Claire Zeisler
Reference Number: 1991.320
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Roger Vitrac, “A propos des oeuvres récentes Paul Klee,” Cashiers d’Art, 5, 6 (1930), pp. 301–306.
John A. Thwaites, “Paul Klee and the Object,” Parnassus 9, 6 (November 1937), p. 8 (ill.), as Searching Eyes.
Karl Nierendorf, Paul Klee: Paintings and Watercolors, 1913 to 1939 (Oxford University Press, 1941), cat. 27 (ill.).
Merle Armitage, Five Essays on Paul Klee (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950), p. 89.
Annegret Janda, Paul Klee und Nationalgalerie 1919–1937 (Dresden, 1986), p. 49.
Paul-Klee-Stiftung, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné (Bern: Paul-Klee-Stiftung, 2001), vol. 5, p. 418 (ill.), cat. 5135, as Der Andere Blick, The Other Gaze.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Paul Klee, March 13–April 2, 1930, p. 11, cat. 60, as Der andere Blick, The Second Glance.
Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für Rheinlande und Westfalen mit der Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee, June 14–July 6, 1931, p. 12, cat. 84, as Der Andere Blick.
Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee: Neue Bilder und Aquarelle, November 15–December 10, 1931, cat. 4.
Prague, Vereinigung der bildenden Künstler Manes, International Exhibition, November 29, 1935–January 2, 1936, cat. 13.
Paris, Musée du Jeu de Pomme, Origines et Développement de l’Art International Indépendant, July 30–October 31, 1937, n.p., cat. 127, as L’autre regard.
New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Paul Klee: A Choice Collection of the Master’s Work, October 24–November 1938, cat. 12.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Sources of Modern Painting, March 2–April 10, 1939, p. 56, cat. 48, as The Other Look, Der Andere Blick; traveled to New York, Wildenstein and Co., April 25–May 20, 1939.
Chicago, Arts Club, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Florsheim, November 4–29, 1941, cat. 14, as The Other Look.
Chicago, Renaissance Society, Paul Klee, June 5–24, 1946, cat. 4., as The Other Look.
Chicago, Arts Club, Paul Klee: Works from Chicago Collections, January 16– February 20, 1962, n.p., cat. 36, as The Other Look. [coll. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Zeisler]

The artist [with Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf and Berlin (price and shipping lists, 1930, The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, MoMA Exhs. Series Folder 4.2; Düsseldorf 1931; Berlin 1931); with Galerie Simon, Paris (Galerie Simon verso label, no. 11436; documentation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, restricted); and with Neumann Gallery, New York (documentation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, restricted)]; sold through Galerie Simon, Paris, to Nierendorf Gallery, New York, 1940 [sent from Galerie Simon to Nierendorf Gallery, Dec. 27, 1937 (Galerie Simon verso label, no. 11436; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, verso label, no. 493; documentation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, restricted)]; sold to Harold M. (1900–1987) and Claire Florsheim (1903–1991), Highland Park, IL, 1941 [documentation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, restricted; Chicago 1941]; Ernest B. and Claire Zeisler (formerly Florsheim), Chicago, 1946; Claire Zeisler Trust; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

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