Untitled

Prints and Drawings

1918

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Untitled
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.: Made 1918
Medium: Watercolor and gouache with graphite on off-white wove paper, laid down on tan wove card.
Inscriptions: Signed recto, upper right center, in graphite: "Klee"; lower left, in graphite: "1918 139"; verso, in graphite: "Buchholz" and "NY 11748"
Dimensions: Primary support: 22.7 × 18 cm (8 15/16 × 7 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 32.4 × 24.9 cm (12 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Clare Hoover Trust
Reference Number: 1998.92
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Der Ararat (1920), p. 9 (ill.).
Leopold Zahn, Paul Klee, Leben, Werk, Geist (Potsdam, 1920), p. 64 (ill.).
Paul Klee: The Collection of F. C. Schang (South Norwalk, Conn., 1952), no. 4.
Paul Klee: The Collection of F. C. Schang (South Norwalk, Conn., 1953), no. 9, as Friendly Quartet.
Christine Hopfengart, Klee: Von Sonderfall zum Publikumsliebling (Mainz, 1989), p. 41.
Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 (Bern, 2000), p. 504, no. 1986 (ill.).

Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm. “Paul Klee, Johannes Molzahn, Kurt Schwitters,” January 1919, cat. 27.
Munich, Galeriestrasse 26, “Neue Münchener Secession,” June 1919.
Munich, Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, “Paul Klee,” May 17-June 25, 1920, cat. 186 (ill.), as Freundliche vier.
Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, “Paul Klee, Hans Mattis Teutsch, Gesamtschau,” July-August 1921, cat. 16.
Tokyo, Buchhandlung Maruzen, “Expressionism,” June 21-30, 1924, cat. 6/48.
Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, “Paintings by Paul Klee,” March 9-April 1, 1951, cat. 9, as Freundliche vier.
New York, Saidenberg Gallery, “Paul Klee: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of his Birth,” March 8-April 26, 1954, cat. 5.

Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich, about 1919 [Paul Klee Foundation 2000]. Buchholz Gallery, New York [Paul Klee Foundation 2000 and old label now in curatorial file]. Frederick Zimmermann, New York [Paul Klee Foundation 2000]. Frederick C. Schang, South Norwalk, Conn., and New York, by 1951 [Palm Beach, Fl. 1951]. Sold by Saidenberg Gallery, New York, to Clare Hoover, March 1954 [old label]; bequeathed by Clare Hoover Trust to the Art Institute, 1998.

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