Follows with Concern, As Both are Blind

Prints and Drawings

1927

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Follows with Concern, As Both are Blind
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1927
Medium: Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper tipped onto tan wove paper.
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "Klee"
Dimensions: Sheet: 41.8 × 30.7 cm (16 1/2 × 12 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 59.1 × 47.4 cm (23 5/16 × 18 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Richard Q. Livingston
Reference Number: 1993.289
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Wil Grohmann, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen 1921-1930 (Potsdam, 1934), no. 121.
Christina Kröll, Die Bildtitel Paul Klees: Eine Studie zur Beziehung von Bild und Sprache in der Kunst des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (Bonn, 1968), p. 38.
Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné 5 (Bern, 2001), p. 115, no. 4376 (ill.).

Lucerne, Galerie Rosengart, “Paul Klee,” June-September 1948, cat. 74; traveled to Galerij Artes, Antwerp, March 1949, and the Association pour le progrès intellectual et artistique de la Wallonie, Liège, April 1949.

By descent to the artist’s wife, Lily Klee (died 1946), Bern, Switzerland [Paul Klee Foundation 2001]; Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern [Paul Klee Foundation 2001]; Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, Switzerland [Paul Klee Foundation 2001]. William Stanley Picher, Chicago, San Francisco, Belvedere, Ohio., about 1950 [Paul Klee Foundation 2001]. Bequeathed by Richard Q. Livingston to The Art Institute, 1993.

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