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No. [number obliterated]\r\nIn ink, on verso, upper right, on mount: 2T\r\nIn pencil, on verso, lower left, on mount: Nr. 5120 | [circular stamp of Buchholz Gallery] | NY 11373\r\nOn mount: E.V. Thaw","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Didactics","textentryhtml":"Born into a musical family, the painter, educator, and theoretician Paul Klee joined the Blaue Reiter circle in Munich in 1912. Following military service in the First World War, Klee joined the teaching staff at the Bauhaus, a post he held until the institution was dissolved in reaction to the rise of Fascism in 1933. The profoundly influential German school of fine and applied arts and architecture lasted only fourteen years yet propagated an aesthetic that came to epitomize international modernist design throughout the second half of the twentieth century.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<p>Lily Klee, Bern (1940-46); Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-1949); Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery; Valentin Gallery), New York; Frederick C. Schang, South Norwalk, Connecticut; Eugene V. Thaw &amp; Co., New York; Gallery Stephen Hahn, New York;&nbsp;Clinton Wilder, New York.</p><p><br></p><p>This provenance for the drawing&nbsp;is&nbsp;published in Klee's Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 5, no. 5259.</p>","remarks":"As per Giada Damen, IMLS Drawings 2018-2020"}],"datebegin":1930,"sortnumber":"1986   92x","published_date":"2026-05-12 02:00:05.888329","objectid":16525,"dimensions":"sight: 61 x 46.8 cm (24 x 18 7/16 in.)\r\nframe: 80 × 65 × 2 cm (31 1/2 × 25 9/16 × 13/16 in.)","on_view":false}