Paul Klee
Untitled1930

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Paul Klee
Switzerland, 1879-1940
Title: Untitled
Place Made: Switzerland
Date Made: 1930
Medium: Oil over India ink on plywood
Dimensions: 17 1/4 × 15 in. (43.82 × 38.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection and purchased with funds provided by the William Preston Harrison Collection
Accession Number: 78.11
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Provenance: 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.
Selected 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.