Paul Klee
Pride of the Gatekeeper1929

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Artist or Maker: Paul Klee
Switzerland, 1879-1940
Title: Pride of the Gatekeeper
Place Made: Switzerland
Date Made: 1929
Medium: Watercolor on paper on illustration board
Dimensions: 18 × 12 in. (45.7 × 30.5 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.57
Classification: Drawings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Provenance: The artist (1879-1940). [Rudolf Probst, (Galerie Neue Kunst Fides; Das Kunsthaus), Dresden and Mannheim, until 1932]; Lily Klee, Bern, 1940-1946; Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, 1946-1948; [Curt Valentin, Berlin and New York, from 1948]; G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh; [Lee A. Ault & Co., Inc. New York]; [New York Christie's, 16 May 1990, no. 169]; [Achim Moeller Fine Art Ltd., New York]; sold in 1991 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 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.
Copyright: © Zentrum Paul Klee / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / PROLITTERIS, Switzerland

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Artist or Maker: Paul Klee
Switzerland, 1879-1940
Title: Pride of the Gatekeeper
Place Made: Switzerland
Date Made: 1929
Medium: Watercolor on paper on illustration board
Dimensions: 18 × 12 in. (45.7 × 30.5 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.57
Classification: Drawings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Provenance: The artist (1879-1940). [Rudolf Probst, (Galerie Neue Kunst Fides; Das Kunsthaus), Dresden and Mannheim, until 1932]; Lily Klee, Bern, 1940-1946; Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, 1946-1948; [Curt Valentin, Berlin and New York, from 1948]; G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh; [Lee A. Ault & Co., Inc. New York]; [New York Christie's, 16 May 1990, no. 169]; [Achim Moeller Fine Art Ltd., New York]; sold in 1991 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 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.