Untitled

© Zentrum Paul Klee / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / PROLITTERIS, Switzerland
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Untitled

Switzerland, 1930
Paintings
Oil over India ink on plywood
17 1/4 × 15 in. (43.82 × 38.1 cm)
Gift of the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection and purchased with funds provided by the William Preston Harrison Collection (78.11)
Modern Art
Not currently on public view

Provenance

The artist (1879-1940)....
The artist (1879-1940). [Alfred Flechteim, Dusseldorf/Berlin/Paris/London until 1930]; [Herbert Tannenbaum ( Das Kunsthaus), Mannheim/Amsterdam/New York]; [Daniel- Henry Kahnweiler, Paris until 1934]; [Karl Nierendorf, Cologne /Berlin/New York]; [Israel Ber Neumann, Graphisches Kabinett, New Art Circle, Neumann Gallery, Berlin/New York]; Victor Collection, Pleasantville; [Earl Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles]; Abraham and Margit W. Chanin, New York; [Staempfli Gallery, New York]; sold to Morton D. May (1914-1983), Saint Louis; [Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London by 1974]; sold to Robert Gore Rifkind (1928-2019), Beverly Hills; sold and given  in 1978 to LACMA.
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Bibliography

  • Helfenstein, Josef, and Christian Rümelin, eds. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, no. 5322, p. 504, illustrated.

  • Helfenstein, Josef, and Christian Rümelin, eds. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001.

  • Helfenstein, Josef, and Christian Rümelin, eds. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, no. 5322, p. 504, illustrated.

  • Helfenstein, Josef, and Christian Rümelin, eds. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
  • Tuchman, Maurice; R. Welsh; C. Blotkamp; C. Eldredge; S. Ringbom; Å. Fant; J. Bowlt; C. Douglas; R. Long; L. Henderson; H. Watts; J. Moffitt; W. Rushing; W. Moritz; D. Kuspit; G. Imanse; E. Kasinec; B. Kerdimun; R. Galbreath; Judi Freeman.  The Spiritual in Art:  Abstract Painting 1890-1985.  New York:  Abbeville Press, 1986.
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