Starving Spirits

Prints and Drawings

1934

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Starving Spirits
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.: 1934
Medium: Pastel and oil on linen
Inscriptions: Signed upper right: "Klee"
Dimensions: Max: 51 × 43.7 cm (20 1/8 × 17 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Margaret Day Blake
Reference Number: 1948.15
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

The Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 7 (Bern, 2003), p. 110, no. 6681 (ill.).

Kunsthalle, Basel, “Paul Klee,” October 27-November 24, 1935, cat. 152.
Kunsthalle, Bern, “Gedächtnisausstellung Paul Klee,” November 9-December 8, 1940, cat. 127.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 143.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake,” April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 44 (ill.).
Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, April 23–May 14, 1972.

By descent to the artist’s wife, Lily Klee (1876-1946), Bern, 1940 [according to the Klee Foundation 2003]; Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, 1946-1947 [according to the Klee Foundation 2003]. Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, about 1947 [according to the Klee Foundation 2003]; sold by Galerie Rosengart to the Art Institute, 1948.

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