Hieroglyph with Fish and Bird

Prints and Drawings

1917

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Hieroglyph with Fish and Bird
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 1917
Medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper, laid down on tan wove card
Inscriptions: Signed recto, upper left, in pen and black ink: "Klee"; dated recto, lower left on mount, in pen and black ink: "1917. 142"; remnants of script in pen and iron gall ink on this reused sheet, recto, upper edge and striking through from verso, illegible
Dimensions: Primary support: 13.9 × 21.4 cm (5 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 25 × 32.2 cm (9 7/8 × 12 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.958
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Josef Helfenstein and Christian Rümelin, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné (Paul Klee Foundation/Benteli, 2002), p. 427, no. 1826.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 174, cat. 125 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 174, cat. 125 (ill.).

Estate of the artist [stamp (Paul• Klee; not in Lugt) verso, lower right on mount, in purple]; Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich, c. 1919. Private collection, Bern, until 1952. Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, 1952–1953. Berggruen and Company, Paris, c. 1953 [all early provenance according to Klee Foundation, 2002]. Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Nov. 16, 1989, lot 156, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Klee Foundation 1826

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