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Materials:
oil and pen and ink onprimed grounded gauze on board
Size Notes:
14 x 18
Description:
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Markings:
signed Klee, dated 1919 and numbered 115(lower left)
Exhibited:
Copenhagen, Den Frie Udstilling, Nyere tysk kunst. Maleri og skulptur, 1932, no. 96; Munich, Haus der Kunst and Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum,Die Maler am Bauhaus, 1950, no. 127; New York, J. B. Neumann and New Art Circle, Paul Klee, 1952, no. 5, n.p., illustrated (titledLandscape with Signs); New York, Perls Galleries, The Educated Eye: Paintings and Sculpture from Collections of Dalton School Families for the Benefit of The Dalton School and its Scholarship Program, 1964, no. 19, illustrated; Ithaca,Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, The David M. Solinger Collection: Masterworks of Twentieth-Century Art, 2002-03, p. 89, illustrated in color
Literature:
Jrg Spiller, ed.,Paul Klee: Das Bildnerische Denken,Form-une Gestaltungs-Jehre, Basel and Stuttgart, 1956, p. 77,illustrated; Jrg Spiller, ed.,Paul Klee: Notebooks, The Thinking Eye, vol. I, New York, 1973, p. 77,illustrated (titled Landscape with gallows and listed as oil on cardboard); Max Huggler, Paul Klee: Die Malerei als Blick in den Kosmos, Frauenfeld and Stuttgart, 1969, p. 53; Annegret Janda, Paul Klee und Nationalgalerie, 1919-1937,?? Paul Klee. Vortrage der wissenschaftlichen Konferenz in Dresden, 19. und 90. Dezember 1984, Dresden, 1986, p. 49 (titledTraumlandschaft mit Galgen and dated1921); Josef Helfenstein and Christian Rmelin, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonn, vol. III, London and New York, 1999, no. 2178, p. 98,illustrated; Kathryn Porter Aichele, Paul Klee, Poet/Painter, Rochester, 2006, fig. 25, pp. 96-100, 112, 159, 170, illustrated; Maike Steinkamp and Ute Haug, eds.,Werke und Werte.ber das Handeln und Sammeln von Kunst im Nationalsozialismus, Berlin 2010, p. 72; Annie Bourneuf, Paul Klee: The Visible and the Legible, Chicago, 2015, n.p., illustrated in color; Anna Casellato.Rilke in Mnchen: der Weg zur Abstraktion, Ph.D. dissertation Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia Universit di Trento, 2021, p. 62
Provenance:
Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich (on commission from the artist circa1919-20); Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Berlin (acquired by 1932); Galerie Ferdinand Mller, Cologne (acquired by 1946 and until at least 1950); New Art Circle, J.B. Neumann, New York (acquired by 1952); Acquired from the above in 1952 by the present owner