Artistic Comedy

Prints and Drawings

1932

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Artistic Comedy
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.: 1932
Medium: Watercolor over traces of graphite on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream card
Inscriptions: Signed upper left: "Klee"
Dimensions: Max: 64.9 × 47.7 cm (25 9/16 × 18 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Elizabeth H. Paepcke
Reference Number: 1994.762
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné 6 (Bern, 2001), p. 167, no. 5714 (ill.).

The Arts Club of Chicago, “Paul Klee: Fourteen Works from Chicago Collections,” November 8-December 6, 1956, cat. 46.
Worthington Gallery, Chicago, “Paul Klee 1879-1940: A Tribute in Celebration of the Artist’s Centennial Year,” October 12-December 1, 1979, cat. 18.

Rudolf Probst (Galerie Neue Kunst Fides; Das Kunsthaus), Dresden, Mannheim, to 1933 [Paul Klee Foundation]. Lily Klee (died 1946), Bern [Angela Rosengart of Galerie Rosengart]; Lily Klee’s estate to Werner Allenbach, Bern, to 1952 [Angela Rosengart and the Paul Klee Foundation]; Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, 1952-1954 [Paul Klee Foundation]. Main Street Gallery, Chicago, about 1954 [Paul Klee Foundation]. Eva-Maria W. Worthington Gallery, Inc., Chicago [Paul Klee Foundation]. Elizabeth Paepcke, Chicago, by 1956 [Chicago 1956]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1994.

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