Details
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Bildnis in der Laube
signed 'Klee' (upper left); numbered, dated, numbered again and titled 'VIII 1930. 7. Bildnis in der Laube' (on the artist's mount)
gouache on paper laid down by the artist on board
Image size: 13 1/8 x 9½ in. (33.3 x 24.1 cm.)
Mount size: 22 5/8 x 18¼ in. (57.5 x 46.4 cm.)
Painted in 1930
Provenance
Alfred Flechtheim, Dusseldorf (until 1931).
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris.
The Mayor Gallery, London (by 1935).
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (by 1966).
Saidenberg Gallery, New York (by 1969).
Galerie Athénée AG, Triesenberg.
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., New York (1989).
Stolen from the above and recovered with the assistance of the Art Loss Register.
Literature
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, Bern, 2001, vol. 5, p. 414, no. 5123 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Dusseldorf, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee. Kunsteverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Verbindung mit der Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, June-July 1931, no. 222.
London, The Mayor Gallery, Paul Klee, June 1935, no. 5.
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Painters of the Bauhaus, March-April 1962, no. 136 (illustrated).
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Paul Klee, June-July 1966, no. 37 (illustrated).
New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Paul Klee. A Retrospective Exhibition, October-November 1969, no. 34 (illustrated).

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