Paul Klee
Motion of a Landscape1914

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Paul Klee
Switzerland, 1879-1940
Title: Motion of a Landscape
Place Made: Switzerland
Date Made: 1914
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper on illustration board
Dimensions: 5 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (15 × 20 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.52
Classification: Drawings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Provenance: [Klee catalogue raisonné notes that “Sold through [Herwarth] Walden, March 1916, several sales with/at Walden (verschiedene Verkäufe bei Walden)]. Hans Fetscherin, Munich and Salzberg; Henry M. Roland, London, from 1956; Anthony Roland, Tillingham; [Galerie Beyeler, Basel, sold 1994 to]; Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles, partial, fractional and promised gift 2005 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Paul Klee Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne. "Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné." London: Thames and Hudson, 1998.
Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.