Dancing Girl

1. The artist, Bern; by descent to his wife, Lily Klee (1876–1946), Bern, 1940 [this and the following according to Paul-Klee Stiftung 2004]; sold to the Klee Gesellschaft, Bern, 1946; sold to Curt Valentin (1902–1954), Berlin and New York, 1948 [March 26, 1951 letter from Curt Valentin to Sally Fairweather, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Lynne Thompson, New York, 1948 [this and the following according to conversation notes with George B. Young, March 15, 1977; in curatorial object file]; with Fairweather-Garnett Gallery, Evanston, IL, 1950; sold to George B. and Mary Young, Chicago, Jan. 22, 1951; given to the Art Institute, 1959.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Buchholz Gallery, Paul Klee, April 20-May 15, 1948, cat. 39 (ill.).
• New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, May 8-June 18, 1956, cat. 166 (ill.).
• Chicago, Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Tenth Anniversary Loan Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture Purchased from this Gallery by Residents of the Chicago Area, October 1-17, 1959.
• Chicago, Arts Club, Paul Klee, Works from Chicago Collections, January 16-February 20, 1962, cat. 64 (ill.), back cover (ill.).

• Valentin, Curt, Paul Klee, exh. cat. (New York: Buchholz Gallery, 1948), cat. 39 (ill.).
• Giedion-Welcker, Carola, Paul Klee, trans. Alexander Gode (New York: Viking Press, 1952), p. 136 (ill.).
• ___, Paul Klee (Stuttgart: G. Hatje, 1954), pp. 181, pl. 166 (ill.), 192.
• Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee (Geneva: Trois collines, 1954), pp. 307 (ill.), 423, cat. 482.
• ___, Paul Klee (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1954), pp. 307 (ill.), 421, cat. 469.
• Frankfurter, Alfred, “Y Art,” Art News 55, 3 (May 1956), p. 22 (ill.).
• Yale University Art Gallery, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1956), cat. 166 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 53, 3 (October 1959), p. 28 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 252.
• McNear, Everett, Paul Klee, Works from Chicago Collections, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1962), cat. 64 (ill.), back cover (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Instituto de arte de Chicago: Presentación de Charles C. Cunningham (Buenos Aires: Editorial Codex, S.A., 1967), pp. 14, no. 66 (ill.), 74 (color ill.).
• Verdi, Richard, “Musical Influences on the Art of Paul Klee,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 3 (1968), pp. 92 (ill. 10), 93.

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