Head (As It Were a Portrait)

Prints and Drawings

1924

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Head (As It Were a Portrait)
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.: 1924
Medium: Oil and gouache on paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: "Klee 1924/13."; inscribed lower left: "Kopf eines Archaeologen"
Dimensions: 37.5 × 28.3 cm (14 13/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1952.1008
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.
Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 4 (Bern, 2000), p. 158, no. 3381 (ill.).

Kunsthalle Mannheim, “Zwei Künstlerphantasten: Paul Klee und Alfred Kubin,” November 23, 1924-January 10, 1925, cat. 16.
Munich, Hans Goltz, “Paul Klee,” May-June 1925, cat. 25.
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, “In Memory of Curt Valentin,” October 5-30, 1954, cat. 13.
Chicago, The Arts Club, “Paul Klee: Works from Chicago Collections,” January 16-February 20, 1962, cat. 16.

Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich. Lily Klee (1876-1946), Bern, 1940-1946; Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, from 1946. Buchholz Gallery, New York, about 1951 [according to the Paul Klee Foundation 2000]; sold to the Art Institute, 1952.

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