Fleeing Ghost

1. The artist [with Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf and Berlin (Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf verso label; Berlin 1929; price and shipping lists, 1930, The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, MoMA Exhs. Series Folder 4.2; Berlin 1931); with Mayor Gallery, London (Edinburgh 1934; London 1934; Douglas Cooper Papers, Getty Research Institute, Series 3: Records of the Mayor Gallery, London, 1933–1938, Box 40, Cooper/Mayor Scrapbook, 1933–35; letters from Paul Klee to Douglas Cooper, Mayor Gallery, Dec. 12, 1934, and Jan. 1935, Douglas Cooper Papers, Getty Research Institute, Series 3: Records of the Mayor Gallery, London, 1933–1938, Box 40, File 17; shipping documentation, Feb. 1, 1935, Kunsthalle Bern Archiv); and with Galerie Simon, Paris (documentation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, restricted)]; sold through Galerie Simon, Paris, to Nierendorf Gallery, New York, 1938 until 1941 [Nierendorf Gallery verso label, no. 306; letter from Karl Nierendorf, Nierendorf Gallery, New York, to Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, April 19, 1941, and attached list “14 Pictures by Klee, let to the Traveling Exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art,” Stendahl Art Galleries, Box 2, Folder 28, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; documentation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, restricted]. Harold M. (1900–1987) and Claire Florsheim (1903–1991), Highland Park, IL, by 1941 [Chicago 1941]; Ernest B. and Claire Zeisler (formerly Florsheim), Chicago, 1946; Claire Zeisler Trust; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee, October 20–November 15, 1929, n.p., cat. 115, as Fliehender Geist.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Paul Klee, March 13–April 2, 1930, p. 16, plate 51 (ill.), cat. 51, as Hurrying Spirit, Fliehender Geist. Essen, Kunsthallen, Deutscher Künstlerbund, May 25–August 23, 1931, cat. 199.
• Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee: Neue Bilder und Aquarelle, November 15–December 10, 1931, cat. 3.
• Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf-Münchner Kunstausstellung, May 14–August 31, 1932, p.33, cat. 363, as Fliehender Geist.
• London, The Mayor Gallery, Paul Klee, January–February 1934, cat. 25.
• Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Forty-First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Scottish Artists, December 1, 1934–January 12, 1935, p. 29, cat. 134, as Fleeing Spirit.
• Bern, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, February 23–March 24, 1935, cat. 42.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, October 27–November 24, 1935, p.4, cat. 33. [for sale]Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee, Fritz Hut, April 26–June 3, 1936, cat. 123.
• New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Paul Klee: A Choice Collection of the Master’s Work, October 24–November 1938, cat. 9.
• Chicago, Arts Club, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Florsheim, November 4–29, 1941, n.p., cat. 13.
• Chicago, Renaissance Society, Paul Klee, June 5–24, 1946, cat. 1. Chicago, Arts Club, Surrealism: Then and Now, October 1–30, 1958, n.p. (ill.), cat. 26.
• Dallas, Museum for Contemporary Arts, Signposts of 20th Century Art, October 28–December 7, 1959, p. 38 (ill.), cat. 91.

• Will Grohmann, Paul Klee (Cahiers d’art, 1929), pp. 59 (ill.), xxxii–xxxiii, as Fliehender Geist and la fuite du fantôme.
• Karl Jakob Hirsch, “Malir Paul Klee,” Musaion (December 1929), v. 9, p. 210 (ill.).
• John Anthony Thwaites, “Paul Klee and the Object,” Parnassus (November 1937), v. 9, no. 6, p. 11, as Flight of the Phantom.
• Christian Zervos, Histoire de l’art Contemporain, (Cahiers d’art, 1938), p. 403 (ill.), as la fuite du fantome.
• Shuzo Takiguchi, “Paul Klee,” Atelier [Tokyo] (1940), 17, no. 4, (ill.).
• Alan Artner, “Art Institute Inherits Five Surrealist Paintings,” Chicago Tribune, Oct. 11, 1991, Section D, A5.
• “Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1991,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts (March 1992), pp. 78 (ill.), 79, cat. 273, as Fantôme fuyant.
• Stefan Frey and Josef Helfenstein, eds., Paul Klee Rediscovered: Works from the Bürgi Collection (London: Merrell Publications, 2000), p. 226, note 4.
• Paul-Klee-Stiftung, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné (Bern: Paul-Klee Stiftung, 2001), vol. 5, p. 336 (ill.), cat. 4887, as Fliehender Geist, Ghost Fleeing.

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