Leaf from the Memoirs of an Old Woman

Provenance

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884-1979), Paris, 1939. Karl Nierendorf (1889-1947), New York, about 1939. Bertrand Goldberg (died 1997), Chicago [according to the Paul Klee Foundation]. Sold by Katherine Kuh, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1946.

Leaf from the Memoirs of an Old Woman

Paul Klee

1939

Accession Number

55400

Medium

Watercolor and pen and brown ink, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, tipped on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

Max: 29.4 × 20.9 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)

Classification

watercolor

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Paepcke