A Phantom Crumbles

Provenance

The artist [with Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf and Berlin, c. 1930 (Liste von Paul Klee to Galerie Alfred Flechtheim of “25 Neue Aquarelle Für Flechtheim anlässl. Amerika Ausstellung,” Jan. 28, 1930, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Schenkung Familie Klee, restricted; price and shipping lists, 1930, The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, MoMA Exhs., Series Folder 4.2; and Düsseldorf 1931); with Galerie Simon and D. H. Kahnweiler, Paris, c. 1934 (shipping sheet to J. B. Neumann, New York, from Galerie Simon, Paris, Oct. 3, 1934, no. 11421, J. B. Neumann Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Microfilm Reels NJBN-1–5); and with Neumann Gallery, New York, 1934 (shipping sheet to J. B. Neumann, Oct. 3, 1934, cited above, and New York 1939)]. Katherine Kuh (1904–1994), Chicago, by June 1946 [Chicago 1946]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.

A Phantom Crumbles

Paul Klee

1927

Accession Number

129937

Medium

Pen and black ink, with watercolor on cream laid paper, laid down on paperboard

Dimensions

31 × 46.3 cm (12 1/4 × 18 1/4 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of Katharine Kuh