Reclining, ca. 1937

  • Paul Klee, Swiss, 1879-1940

Oil on burlap

  • Unframed: 13 1/2 × 24 inches (34.3 × 61 cm)
  • 18 7/8 × 29 7/8 × 1 1/2 inches (47.9 × 75.9 × 3.8 cm)

Gift of Miss Edith Ferry

44.90

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

Signed, upper right: Klee

1939, (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris, France)

1939, (Karl Nierendorf, New York, New York, USA)

Edith Ferry Hooper (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

1944-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Exercise: Art About Action. Exh. cat., Jr. Art Gallery, Louisville Free Public Library. Louisville, Kentucky, 1956, no. 20. "Family Art Game." DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit Free Press (April 26, 1981): p. 21 (ill.). Uhr, H. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 116 (ill.). Helfensen, Josef and Christian Rumelin, eds. Paul Klee Catalogue Raissonne, vol. 7. Berne, 2005, no. 8264.

Paul Klee, Reclining, ca. 1937, oil on burlap. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Miss Edith Ferry, 44.90.