In the Magic Mirror

1. The artist, Bern; consigned and later sold to Karl Nierendorf Galleries, New York, 1938 [Paul Klee Zentrum restricted documentation]; probably directly sold to Katharine Kuh Gallery, Chicago, by 1941 [this and the following according to Chicago 1941 and Artner 1991]; sold to Harold M. Florsheim (1900–1987) and Claire Florsheim (1903–1991), Highland Park, IL, by 1941; Dr. Ernest B. Zeisler (1899–1962) and Claire Zeisler (formerly Florsheim), Chicago, by 1958 [Chicago 1958]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Bern, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, February 23–March 24, 1935, cat. 95.Basel, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, October 27–November 24, 1935, cat. 81.
• Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee, Fritz Huf, April 26–June 3, 1936, cat. 150.
• New York, Nierendorf Galleries, Paul Klee. A Choice Collection of the Master’s Work, October 24–November 1938, cat. 5.
• Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Florsheim, November 4–29, 1941, cat. 11, as Image in the Magic Mirror.Chicago, Renaissance Society, Paul Klee, June 5–24, 1946, cat. 2.
• Chicago, Art Club, Surrealism Then and Now, October 1–30, 1958, cat. 28.
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collection, December 1, 1984–January 27, 1985, p. 160.

• Herbert Read, “Homage to Paul Klee: Klee: Imagination and Phantasy,” XXe Siècle (Paris: Chroniques du jour, Christmas 1938), vol. 1, no. 4, p. 32 (ill.).
• Karl Nierendorf, ed., Paul Klee Paintings and Watercolors 1913–1939 (Oxford University Press, 1941), p. 30, pl. 46 (ill.).
• Carola Giedion-Welcker, Paul Klee (Viking Press, 1952), p. 102 (ill.).Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, (Genève: Trois collines, 1954), p. 311.
• Alan Artner, “Art Institute Inherits Five Surrealist Paintings,” Chicago Tribune, Oct. 11, 1991, Section D, A5 (ill.).
• Lori Rotenberk, “A Stellar Surrealist Gift,” Chicago Sun-Times, (Friday, October 11, 1991) p. 5 (ill.).
• “Principales acquisitions des musées en 1991,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts (March 1992), vol. 79, no. 1478, pp. 78 (ill.), 79, cat. 274, as Dans le miroir magique.
• James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p. 70 (ill.).
• Paul-Klee-Stiftung, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné (Bern: Paul-Klee-Stiftung, 2003), vol. 7, p. 132 (ill.), cat. 6745, as Zauberspiegelbild, Reflection in the Magic Mirror.

Dancing Girl

Art Institute of Chicago

Sunset

Art Institute of Chicago

Fleeing Ghost

Art Institute of Chicago

Women Harvesting

Art Institute of Chicago

Death in the Garden (Legend)

Art Institute of Chicago

Asiatic God

Art Institute of Chicago

Der Paukenspieler (The Drummer Boy)

Art Institute of Chicago

Exotics

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