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Title:Girl in Mourning
Artist:Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), Münchenbuchsee 1879–1940 Muralto-Locarno)
Date:1939
Medium:Gouache, pastel, and charcoal on paper mounted on cardboard
Dimensions:26 1/8 × 19 3/4 in. (66.4 × 50.2 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984
Object Number:1984.315.61
Inscription: Signed (upper right): Klee; dated and inscribed on cardboard (lower left): 1939 J K 10; (lower right): Mädchen in Trauer
the artist, Bern (1939–d. 1940); his widow, Lily Klee, Bern (1940–46); Paul Klee Society, later Paul Klee Foundation, Bern (1946–47; in 1947 to Rosengart); [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, 1947–49; sold in 1949 to Arnhold]; Hans Arnhold, New York and Lausanne (1949–d. 1966); his daughter, Ellen Maria Gorrissen, New York (from 1966); her daughter, Nina Maria Gorrissen, New York (until 1984; sold in 1984 to Hutton); [Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, 1984]; Heinz Berggruen, Paris and Berlin (1984; his gift to MMA)
Kunsthaus Zürich. "Klee," February 16–March 25, 1940, no. 125 (as for sale, SFr 700).
Antwerp. Galerij Artes. "Paul Klee," March 1949, no. 43.
Liège. A.P.I.A.W. (Association pour le progrès intellectuel et artistique de la Wallonie). "Paul Klee," April 9–21, 1949, no. 43.
New York. Leonard Hutton Galleries. "The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee," March 30–May 24, 1984, no. 65.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paul Klee: The Berggruen Klee Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 6–July 31, 1988, unnumbered cat. (p. 263).
Kunsthalle Tübingen. "Paul Klee: Die Sammlung Berggruen im Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York und im Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris," January 22–April 16, 1989, unnumbered cat. (p. 273).
London. Tate Gallery. "Paul Klee: The Berggruen Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris," May 17–August 13, 1989, unnumbered cat. (p. 273).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paul Klee: Of Men and Women," opened March 27, 1990, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paul Klee: Figures and Faces," August 23–November 16, 1997, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee's Line," March 18–July 9, 2000, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee Figures," October 5, 2001–March 10, 2002, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee Creatures," December 12, 2003–March 14, 2004, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Made in Germany," May 22–October 14, 2007, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Late Klee," October 18, 2012–March 31, 2013, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art [The Met Breuer]. "Humor and Fantasy: The Berggruen Paul Klee Collection," September 1, 2016–January 2, 2017, no catalogue.
Ottawa. National Gallery of Canada. "Paul Klee: The Berggruen Collection from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 16, 2018–March 17, 2019, no catalogue.
Sabine Rewald. Paul Klee: The Berggruen Klee Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1988, pp. 262–63, 289, 319, ill. (color and bw), notes that the same figure appears in the drawing "Schoolgirl" (1939; Kunstmuseum Bern; Helfenstein and Rümelin 2004, no. 8807); suggests that the title derives from the resemblance of the thick black outline of the figure to "the black-edged note paper that Germans are so fond of using when writing condolence letters".
Jane Norrie. "Paul Klee." Arts Review 41 (June 2, 1989), p. 439, ill.
Josef Helfenstein, Christian Rümelin, and Eva Wiederkehr Sladeczek, ed. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. Ed. Paul Klee Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne. Vol. 8, 1939. New York, 2004, pp. 493, 513, no. 8837, ill. (color and bw).
Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), Münchenbuchsee 1879–1940 Muralto-Locarno)
1929
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