Woman in Evolution

Prints and Drawings

c. 1935

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Woman in Evolution
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.: 1930–1940
Medium: Watercolor and dilute oil paint on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed upper left: "Klee"
Dimensions: 32.1 × 48.8 cm (12 11/16 × 19 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Elizabeth H. Paepcke
Reference Number: 1994.766
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

E. Tériade, “La peinture surréaliste,” Minotaure 2 (1936), (ill.).
Dorette Berthoud, La peinture française d’aujourd’hui (Paris, 1937), p. 62.
Marcel Baumgartner, “…das Richtige als dazwischenliegend zu treffen,” Paul Klee: Spätwerke 1937-1940 (Chur, 1986), p. 25.
Christian Rümelin, “Klee Umgang mit seinem eigenen Oeuvre,” in “Paul Klee: Jahre der Meisterschaft” (Balingen, 2001), p. 218.
The Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 7 (Bern, 2003), p. 171, no. 6822 (ill.).

New York, Buchholz Gallery, “Paul Klee,” March 23-April 23, 1938, cat. 62.
Chicago, The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, “Paul Klee,” June 5-24, 1946, cat. 15.

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884-1979), Paris, to 1938 [Paul Klee Foundation]. Buchholz Gallery, New York, by 1938 [New York 1938]. Karl Nierendorf (1889-1947), New York, about 1938 [Paul Klee Foundation]. Elizabeth Paepcke, Chicago, by June 1946 [Chicago 1946]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1994.

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