Paul Klee

Galka E. Scheyer, Braunschweig and Los Angeles (acquired on consignment from the artist in June 1928 and until 1933)

Paul Klee, Bern (acquired from the above in 1933)

Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the above in 1940)

Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946 and until 1948) 

Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York (acquired in 1948)

Burton G. and Emily Hall Tremaine, Connecticut (acquired in 1948)

Christie's, New York, 5 November 1991, lot 2 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Nancy Whyte Fine Arts, New York

Acquired from the above in April 1996 by the present owner

Los Angeles, Braxton Gallery; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; The Oakland Art Gallery; Santa Barbara, Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery and The Arts Club of Chicago The Blue Four, 1930, no. 11 (Los Angeles); no. 12 (San Francisco); no. 22 (Oakland and Santa Barbara); no. 145 (Chicago)

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Delaunay to de Kooning, Modern Masters from the Tremaine Collection and the Wadsworth Atheneum, 1991

Kersten Wolfgang and Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee: Im Zeichen der Teilung, Berlin, 1995, p. 335, illustrated

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 3, Bern, 1999, no. 2068, p. 38, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee and Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste, Paul Klee: Sonderklasse—unverkäuflich, 2014-15, no. 29, p. 192, illustrated in color; pp. 193 and 518