Animals in Monumental Pose

Prints and Drawings

1933

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Animals in Monumental Pose
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.: 1933
Medium: Black crayon on cream wove tracing paper, hinged to cream wove card
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "Klee"
Dimensions: 44.4 × 26.6 cm (17 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Mrs. Walter P. Paepcke, Mrs. Alice H. Patterson and Margaret Day Blake funds
Reference Number: 1949.4
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Kurt Seligmann, “A Letter,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, XLVI: 3 (September 1952), p. 43 (ill.).
Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 6 (Bern, 2001), p. 447, no. 6367 (ill.).

New York, Buchholz Gallery, “Fifty Drawings by Paul Klee,” October 26-November 13, 1948, cat. 45.

By descent to the artist’s wife, Lily Klee (died 1946), Berne, 1940 [according to the Klee Foundation]; Klee-Gesellschaft, Berne, 1946-1948 [according to the Klee Foundation]. Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1948 [according to the Klee Foundation]; sold to the Art Institute, 1949.

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