Paul Klee Fliehende Mädchen (Fleeing Girl)

Property from the Collection of Geoffrey M. And Carol D. Chinn
Paul Klee
1879 - 1940

Fliehende Mädchen (Fleeing Girl)
signed Klee (lower right); dated 1930, titled and inscribed R. 6. (on the artist's mount)
pen and ink on paper mounted on card
sheet: 14 ⅞ by 11 ¼ in. 37.8 by 28.6 cm.
mount: 20 ⅞ by 16 ⅝ in. 53 by 42.2 cm.
Executed in 1930.

Condition Report:
Executed on cream laid paper mounted on card which is hinged to the support along the perimeter of its verso. The edges of the sheet are lightly deckled. A few pindots of foxing throughout the sheet and mount. The sheet undulates. A few fine flattened creases along the extreme right and lower margins of the sheet. One 5-inch flattened crease extending diagonally through the lower right quadrant. Mat burn along the perimeter of the mount, not visible when framed. The work is in overall very good condition.

Provenance:
Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the artist in 1940)

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

Karl Nierendorf, Cologne, Berlin and New York (acquired by 1947)

Estate of the above

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (acquired by 1948 and until 1971)

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired by 1972 and until 1973)

Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York and London (acquired circa 1973)

Private Collection, New York (acquired by 1985)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner