Sunset

1. The artist, Dessau and later Bern; given to Will Grohmann (1887–1968), Dresden and Berlin, Dec. 1934–Apr. 1935 [Klee-Grohmann Correspondence, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Archiv Grohmann, Box 105, copies in curatorial object file]; sold to Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, 1962 [this and the following according to correspondence from Karin von Maur, Dec. 13, 1999, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Mary Block (1904–1981) and Leigh B. Block (1905–1987), Chicago, 1964; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Kunsthalle Bern, Paul Klee, February 23–March 24, 1935, cat. 49.
• Kunsthalle Bern, Paul Klee: Ausstellung in Verbindung mit der Paul-Klee Stiftung, Aug. 11–Nov. 4, 1956, 118, cat. 756 (not ill.), as Sonnen untergang.
• Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Paul Klee, Dec. 2, 1956–Jan. 27, 1957, cat. 264.
• London, Marlborough Fine Arts, Painters of the Bauhaus, Mar.–Apr. 1962, cat. 138.
• London, Marlborough Fine Arts, Aspects of Twentieth Century Art, July-Aug. 1962, cat. 24.
• New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Artist and Maecenas: A Tribute to Curt Valentin, Nov.–Dec. 1963, cat. 277.
• Washington, D.C., National Gallery, 100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, May 4–June 11, 1967, cat. 35; Los Angeles, City Museum of Art, Sept. 21–Nov. 2, 1967, and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, February 2–April 14, 1968, cat. 36.
• Huston, The Menil Collection, Klee and America, June 16-September 10, 2006, Washington DC, The Phillips Collection, Oct. 6, 2006- Jan. 14, 2007, cat. 72.
• New York, Di Donna Gallery, Enchanted Reverie: Klee and Calder, Apr. 19, 2024-June 8, 2024 (preview date Apr. 18), no cat. no.

• Kunsthalle Bern, Paul Klee, exh. cat. (Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1935), 5, cat. 49 (not ill.), as Sonnenuntergang E9.
• Kunsthalle Bern, Paul Klee: Ausstellung in Verbindung mit der Paul-Klee Stiftung, exh. cat. (Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1956), 118, cat. 756 (not ill.), as Sonnen untergang.
• Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Paul Klee, exh. cat. (Hamburg: Kunstverein in Hamburg, 1956), 27, cat. 264 (not ill.), as Sonnen untergang.
• Marlborough Fine Arts, Painters of the Bauhaus, exh. cat. (London: Marlborough Fine Arts, 1962), 63, cat. 138 (ill.), as Sunset, Sonnenuntergang.
• Marlborough Fine Arts, Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art, exh. cat. (London: Marlborough Fine Arts, 1962), n.p., cat. 24 (ill.), as Sunset.
• Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Artist and Maecenas: A Tribute to Curt Valentin, exh. cat. (New York: Marlborough-Gerson, 1963), 19, cat. 277 (ill.), as Sunset.
• National Gallery of Art, 100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967), n.p., cat. 35 (ill.).
• Will Grohmann, Paul Klee (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1954), 284 (ill.), 401, 417, no. 302, cat. 133, as Sunset, Sonnenuntergang.
• Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, trans. Jean Descoullayes and Jean Philippon (Geneva: Trois collines, 1954), 276, 401 (ill.), 419, no. 302, cat. 133, as Sunset, Sonnenuntergang, Coucher de soleil.
• Jürg Spiller, Paul Klee. Das bildnerische Denken. Schriften zur Form- und Gestaltungslehre (Basel: B. Schwabe, 1956), 75 (not ill.), as Sonnenuntergang.
• Max Huggler, “Paul Klee,” in Künstler-Lexicon der Schweiz: XX. Jahrhundert (Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber, 1958), vol. 1, 527 (not ill.), as Sonnenuntergang.
• Richard Verdi, “Musical Influences on the Art of Paul Klee,”Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies Vol. 3 (1968), 98, fig. 16 (ill.), 99-100.

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