Dance to the Sound of Bells, Oboes and Violin

Prints and Drawings

1929

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Dance to the Sound of Bells, Oboes and Violin
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.: 1929
Medium: Watercolor, with pen and brush and brown ink on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper.
Inscriptions: Signed upper center: "Klee"
Dimensions: 310 × 458 mm (max.) (primary support); 442 × 591 mm (secondary support)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
Reference Number: 1996.626
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Christina Kröll, Die Bildtitel Paul Klees: Eine Studie zur Beziehung von Bild und Sprache in der Kunst des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (Bonn, 1968), p. 32.
Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné 5 (Bern, 2001), p. 354, no. 4942 (ill.).

Chicago, Arts Club, “Paul Klee: Works from Chicago Collections,” January 16-February 20, 1962, cat. 31.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, December 20, 1969–February 1, 1970, n. p., cat. 99.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism,” December 1, 1984-January 27, 1985.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection,” February 23-April 14, 1985, pp. 69 and 110, cat. 76, fig. 59.

By descent to the artist’s wife, Lily Klee (1876-1946), Bern [Paul Klee Foundation 2001]; Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, to 1948 [Paul Klee Foundation 2001]. Buchholz Gallery, New York, about 1948 [Paul Klee Foundation 2001]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1996.

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