A Phantom Crumbles

Prints and Drawings

1927

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: A Phantom Crumbles
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1927
Medium: Pen and black ink, with watercolor on cream laid paper, laid down on paperboard
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: "Klee"
Dimensions: 31 × 46.3 cm (12 1/4 × 18 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Katharine Kuh
Reference Number: 1994.151
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 5 (Bern, 2001), p. 159, no. 4506 (ill.).

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, “Paul Klee,” 13 March-2 April 1930, cat. 27.
Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Verbindung mit der Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, “Paul Klee,” 14 June-6 July 1931, cat. 187.
Hartford, Conn, Wadsworth Atheneum, “Paul Klee,” 21 January-11 February 1936, cat. 21.
Paris, Galerie Roland Baläy et Louis Carré, “Paul Klee: Tableaux et Aquarelles,” 7-28 July 1938, cat. 9.
New York, Neumann-Willard Gallery, “Paul Klee,” 15 May-10 June 1939, cat. 21.
Chicago, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, “Paul Klee,” 5-24 June 1946, cat. 9.

The artist [with Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf and Berlin, c. 1930 (Liste von Paul Klee to Galerie Alfred Flechtheim of “25 Neue Aquarelle Für Flechtheim anlässl. Amerika Ausstellung,” Jan. 28, 1930, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Schenkung Familie Klee, restricted; price and shipping lists, 1930, The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, MoMA Exhs., Series Folder 4.2; and Düsseldorf 1931); with Galerie Simon and D. H. Kahnweiler, Paris, c. 1934 (shipping sheet to J. B. Neumann, New York, from Galerie Simon, Paris, Oct. 3, 1934, no. 11421, J. B. Neumann Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Microfilm Reels NJBN-1–5); and with Neumann Gallery, New York, 1934 (shipping sheet to J. B. Neumann, Oct. 3, 1934, cited above, and New York 1939)]. Katherine Kuh (1904–1994), Chicago, by June 1946 [Chicago 1946]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.

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