Art Institute of Chicago

Asiatic God

Paul Klee · 1924

Provenance

Ownership history

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris by 1939 [Paul-Klee Stiftung, 2000]. Karl Nierendorf Gallery, New York, by 1939 until at least 1940 [Paul-Klee Stiftung, 2000 and New York 1940 exh. cat.]. Harold M. and Claire Florsheim, Highland Park, Ill., by 1941 [Chicago 1941 exh. cat.]. Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago [according to telephone conversation in October 1991 between Katherine Kuh and AIC curator Charles Stuckey]. Dr. Ernest B. and Claire Zeisler (formerly Claire Florsheim), Chicago by June 1960 to September 30, 1991 [conservation report June 30, 1960 by Louis Pomerantz in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1991.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Munich, Neue Münchener Secession, XI Ausstellung, Summer/Fall 1925, cat. 39.
Bern, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, February 23–March 24, 1935, cat. 19.Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee, Fritz Huf, April 26–June 3, 1936, no. 19.
New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Paul Klee: An Exhibition in Honor of the Sixtieth Birthday of the Artist, February 1940, cat. 1.
Chicago, Arts Club, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Florsheim, November 4–29, 1941, cat. 12.
Chicago, Arts Club, Paul Klee, Works from Chicago Collections, January16–February 20, 1962, n.p. (not ill.), cat. 15.
Art Institute of Chicago, Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test, October 29, 2017–January 15, 2018, cat. 530.

Literature

Karl Nierendorf, ed., Paul Klee, Paintings, Watercolors 1913 to 1939 (Oxford University Press: New York, 1941), n.p. (ill.), plate 14.
Merle Armitage, Five Essays on Paul Klee (Duell, Sloan and Pearce: New York, 1950), p. 88 (not ill.).
Alan Artner, “Art Institute Inherits Five Surrealist Paintings,” Chicago Tribune, Oct. 11, 1991, Section D, A5.
Paul-Klee Stiftung, Paul Klee. Catalogue Raisonné (Die Stiftung: Bern, 2000), vol. 4, p. 263 (ill.), cat. 3625.
Matthew S. Witkovsky and Devin Fore, ed. Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Text. Exh. Cat. Art Institute of Chicago, 2017, cat. 530, p. 312.

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