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Grenzen des Verstandes (Limits of Reason)

Limits of Reason
Lost Art-ID
629637
Artist / Creator
Klee, Paul
Birth
1879.12.18, Münchenbuchsee
Death
1940.06.29, Muralto
Place of activity
Bern; München; Weimar; Dessau; Düsseldorf
Title
Grenzen des Verstandes (Limits of Reason)
Additional title
Limits of Reason
Dating
1927
Object type
Painting
Group of reported objects
Painting
Material / Technique
Tempera ; Canvas / painted
Height
56.30 cm
Width
41.50 cm
Inventory number
14234
Description

Finding on the reverse:

Inscribed by Klee in pencil on the stretcher: "192 (adhesive label: “244”) Grenzen des Verstandes Klee". Cf. inventory catalogue Klee, Klingsöhr-Leroy, no. 16. On the stretcher three further adhesive labels

Sticky label: "...auer, Berlin/2002/Art Department"

"From / the Museum of Modern Art/730 Fifth Avenue New York/To Flechtheim Gallery/ Lutzowufer 13 / Berlin"

"Galerie Flechtheim / Berlin W 10 / Düsseldorf / Lützowufer 13 Königsallee 34 / D

/ 3618 / Paul Klee / Grenzen des Verstandes 1927/58 x 42 cm...".

In pencil:

"Grenzen des Verstandes / Klee"

In black colour, the number handwritten: "B 8646"

In blue colour handwritten the number "E 3618"

In red colour handwritten the number "GR 523 - 2 - 232"

Holding
Classical modernism
Provenance

1929, 1930 at the latest - at least 06.07.1931, Alfred Flechtheim (1878 - 1937), Berlin, acquired in exchange for Paul Klee ‘Geist bei Wein und Spiel’, 1927, 16 by Hermann Lange,

n.d. - n.d. 02.04.1942, unknown whereabouts,

02.04.1942 - 02.04.1942, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin, acquired from an unknown private collection,

02.04.1942 - 1971, Theodor Werner (1886 - 1969) and Woty Werner (1903 - 1971, née Anneliese Rütgers), Potsdam/Munich, acquired as a purchase from Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin,

since 1971, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, acquired as a bequest from Theodor and Woty Werner, Munich

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