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The lines are illuminated by surrounding points of color in yellow, orange, green, pink, and beige."},"main_reference_number":"1959.172","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1940,"date_end":1940,"date_display":"1940","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Paul Klee\nGerman, born Switzerland, 1879\u20131940","place_of_origin":"Germany","description":"<p>Directly affected by the Nazis\u2019 ascent to power, Paul Klee was dismissed in 1933 from his teaching post at Dusseldorf Academy, where he had spent two years after leaving the Bauhaus. Exiled to Switzerland, Klee suffered physically and psychologically, and his artistic output diminished significantly. Between 1937 and 1940, however, Klee regained artistic momentum and produced several hundred paintings and over 1,500 drawings. In these later works, Klee continued to experiment with unusual media and techniques to produce multidimensional effects. <em>Dancing Girl<\/em> also reveals Klee\u2019s limitless humor\u2014his signature at the lower right was made by a monogrammed handkerchief, which he laid over the surface to begin his painting.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"53.3 \u00d7 51.2 cm (21 \u00d7 20 7\/8 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":51,"height":53,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on cloth","inscriptions":"signed, l.r.: \"P K\"","credit_line":"Gift of George B. Young","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Valentin, Curt, Paul Klee, exh. cat. (New York: Buchholz Gallery, 1948), cat. 39 (ill.).\n\nGiedion-Welcker, Carola, Paul Klee, trans. Alexander Gode (New York: Viking Press, 1952), p. 136 (ill.).\n\n___, Paul Klee (Stuttgart: G. Hatje, 1954), pp. 181, pl. 166 (ill.), 192.\n\nGrohmann, Will, Paul Klee (Geneva: Trois collines, 1954), pp. 307 (ill.), 423, cat. 482. \n\n___, Paul Klee (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1954), pp. 307 (ill.), 421, cat. 469.  \n\nFrankfurter, Alfred, \u201cY Art,\u201d Art News 55, 3 (May 1956), p. 22 (ill.).\n\nYale University Art Gallery, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1956), cat. 166 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago Annual Report 53, 3 (October 1959), p. 28 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 252. \n\nMcNear, Everett, Paul Klee, Works from Chicago Collections, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1962), cat. 64 (ill.), back cover (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Instituto de arte de Chicago: Presentaci\u00f3n de Charles C. Cunningham (Buenos Aires: Editorial Codex, S.A., 1967), pp. 14, no. 66 (ill.), 74 (color ill.).\n\nVerdi, Richard, \u201cMusical Influences on the Art of Paul Klee,\u201d The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 3 (1968), pp. 92 (ill. 10), 93. \n\n___, \u201cMusikalische Einfl\u00fcsse bei Klee,\u201d Melos 40, 1 (January-February 1973), pp. 10, 15 (ill.).\n\nSpeyer, A. James, and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 49-50, no. 2D2.\n\nRoskill, Mark W., Klee, Kandinsky, and the Thought of Their Time: A Critical Perspective (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), p. 176, pl. 69.\n\nCarroll, Colleen, How Artists See People: Boy, Girl, Man, Woman (New York: Abbeville Kids, 1996), pp. 18 (color ill.), 19 (color ill., detail).\n\nPaul-Klee-Stiftung, Kunstmuseum Bern, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9, vol. 8 (Bern: Benteli, 2004), p. 566, cat. 8995 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"New York, Buchholz Gallery, Paul Klee, April 20-May 15, 1948, cat. 39 (ill.).\n\nNew Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, May 8-June 18, 1956, cat. 166 (ill.).\n\nChicago, Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Tenth Anniversary Loan Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture Purchased from this Gallery by Residents of the Chicago Area, October 1-17, 1959.\n\nChicago, Arts Club, Paul Klee, Works from Chicago Collections, January 16-February 20, 1962, cat. 64 (ill.), back cover (ill.).","provenance_text":"The artist, Bern; by descent to his wife, Lily Klee (1876\u20131946), Bern, 1940 [this and the following according to Paul-Klee Stiftung 2004]; sold to the Klee Gesellschaft, Bern, 1946; sold to Curt Valentin (1902\u20131954), Berlin and New York, 1948 [March 26, 1951 letter from Curt Valentin to Sally Fairweather, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Lynne Thompson, New York, 1948 [this and the following according to conversation notes with George B. 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