Provenance:
Lily Klee, Bern (by descent from the artist, 1940)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired in 1946)
Rolf & Catherine E. Bürgi, Bern (acquired in 1950)
Estate of Rolf Bürgi, Bern (by descent, 1967)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired in 1969)
Peter Wurmser, Switzerland (acquired in 1982)
Galerie Römer, Zurich (acquired in 1988)
David Neumann, Stockholm (1995)
Private collection, Sweden (acquired in 1998 and sold: Christie’s, London, 10 February 2005, lot 657)
Private collection
Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva
Sotheby’s, New York, 8 May 2014, lot 132
Private collection
Exhibitions/Literature:
Klee – Kunst ist ein Schöpfungsgleichnis, Galerie Beyeler, Basel 1973, no. 61 (illus.)
Klee. 74 Werke von 1908 bis 1940, Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris 1974, no. 50
Paul Klee, W. Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf 1977 (illus.)
Stilleben im 20. Jahrhundert, Galerie Beyeler, Basel 1978–79, no. 41
Paul Klee, Das Werk der Jahre 1919-1933, Gemälde, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Kunsthalle, Cologne 1979, no. 353
Panorama de l’oeuvre de Paul Klee, Palais des Beaux-Art, Charleroi 1980, no. 80
Still leben, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm 1995, no. 240, colour illus. p. 150
The Third Eye: Fantasies, Dreams and Visions, Richard L. Feigen & Co. & New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, New York 2005–06
