Duke Leader (Ladder) Not Alone

Prints and Drawings

1938

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Duke Leader (Ladder) Not Alone
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.: 1938
Medium: Oil and tempera on paper
Inscriptions: Signed upper left: "Klee"; inscribed lower left: "1938 N 4"; lower right: "Herzog Leiter nicht allein"; inscribed upper left on white cardboard: "Konig Leiter u.s.Geliebte"
Dimensions: 34.3 × 48.6 cm (13 9/16 × 19 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Cyrus Hall McCormick
Reference Number: 1951.255
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 251.
The Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 7 (Bern, 2003), p. 422, no. 7406 (ill.).

Lucerne, Galerie Rosengart, “Paul Klee,” June-September, 1948, cat. 39, as: “Le Duc n’est pas seul”; traveled to Antwerp, Galerij Artes, March, 1949; and Liège, Belgium, the Association pour le Progres d’Art, April 9-21, 1949.

By descent to the artist’s wife, Lily Klee (1876-1946), 1940; Klee Gesellschaft, Bern, from 1946 [according to the Klee Foundation 2003]; sold to Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, by April 1949 [according to a letter from Angela Rosengart dated April 20, 1977 in curatorial file and the Klee Foundation 2003]; sold to the Art Institute, 1951.

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