Stakim

c. 1928

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879–1940

Status: On View, Gallery 393
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Stakim
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1923–1933
Medium: Oil on plaster
Inscriptions: Signed, u.l.: "Klee"
Dimensions: 20.3 × 32.4 cm (8 × 12 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman
Reference Number: 1948.560
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Will Grohmann, Paul Klee (New York, 1954), p. 266.Jürg Spiller, ed., Paul Klee. Das bildnerische Denken. Form- und Gestaltungslehre, vol. 1 (Basel/Stuttgart, 1956).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Art Institute (Chicago, 1961), p. 251.Richard Verdi, “Musical Influences on the Art of Paul Klee,” Museum Studies 3 (1968), pp. 84, 87 (ill.).
Richard Verdi, “Musikalische Einflüsse bei Klee,” Melos XL (January-February 1973), pl. 9.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century EuropeanPaintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 49, no. 2C10.

Basel, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, October 37-November 24, 1935, no. 45.New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Fifth Selection of Works by Paul Klee, March-June 1942, no. 34.

Galerie Simon (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris, 1931 to 1938 [no. 01164, photo no. 16024]. Karl Nierendorf, New York, by 1942 [New York 1942 exh. cat.]. Henry Kleemann, New York. Sold, Elizabeth Chapman, Chicago [according to a letter from Mrs. Chapman in curatorial file]. Given by her to the Art Institute, 1948.

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