Cosmic Revolutionary

Prints and Drawings

1918

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Cosmic Revolutionary
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.: 1918
Medium: Pen and brown ink, on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wood-pulp laminate card
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "Klee"; inscribed lower left: "1918/ 181"
Dimensions: 24.6 × 22 cm (9 11/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Kunstadter Memorial
Reference Number: 1978.464
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Jürgen Glaesemer, Paul Klee: Handzeichnung, I (Bern, 1973), p. 255.
Christian Geelhaar, “Klee-Zeichnungen,” Reise ins Land der besseres Erkenntnis (Cologne, 1975), p. 18 (ill.).
Christian Geelhaar, Klee-Zeichnung, no. 45 (ill.).
Tilman Osterwold, Paul Klee: Die Ordnung der Dinge (Stuttgart, 1975), no. 139 (ill.).
Otto Werckmeister, From Revolution to Exile (New York, 1987), p. 45 (ill.).
Otto Werckmeister, The Making of Paul Klee’s Career 1914-1920 (Chicago, 1989), p. 156 (ill.).
Dirk Teuber, Intuition und Genie: Aspekte des Transzendenten bei Paul Klee (Mannheim, 1990), p. 41 (ill.).
Wolfgang Kersten and Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee: Im Zeichen der Teilung (Dusseldorf, 1995), p. 335 (ill.).
Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 2 (Bern, 2000), p. 518, no. 2028 (ill.).

Paris, Galerie Tarica, “Paul Klee,” November 22-December 22, 1963.
London, Brook Street Gallery, “Klee,” June-September 1966, cat. 5.
New York, Saidenberg Gallery, “Paul Klee Drawings,” February 1-March 25, 1967, cat. 7.
Munich, Leihschein Galerie im Lenbachhaus, “Paul Klee Retrospective,” December 12, 1979-March 2, 1980, cat. 359.

Private collector, Bern; sold to Klipstein and Kornfeld, 1962 [a letter from Christine Stauffer of Galerie Kornfeld of January 8, 2004 in curatorial file]; sold, Klipstein and Kornfeld, Berne, May 24, 1962, lot 125; Berggruen and Company, Paris, 1962-about 1967 [Paul Klee Foundation 2000]; Saidenberg Gallery, New York, 1967 [New York 1967]. Harry Lynde Bradley, about 1968 [Paul Klee Foundation 2000]. John Kings, Sheridan, Wy. [Paul Klee Foundation 2000]. Bodley Gallery, New York [Paul Klee Foundation 2000]. Joan and Lester Avnet, New York [Paul Klee Foundation 2000]. Sold, Sotheby’s, March 18, 1976, lot 46b. John and Paul Herring and Company, Inc., New York, 1976 [Paul Klee Foundation 2000]; sold to the Art Institute, 1978.

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