Collection Online as of December 4, 2023
1929
Watercolor and gouache
Support: Japanese laid paper adhered to thin cardboard
Sheet: 46.5 x 31 cm (18 5/16 x 12 3/16 in.); Mounted: 57.1 x 45.8 cm (22 1/2 x 18 1/16 in.)
Gift in loving memory of Martha Higgins Laundon (Mrs. Arthur S.) by her children Lloyd Laundon Taplin, Ann Laundon Kendall, Arthur Higgins Laundon, Gail Laundon Hussey and Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2007.195
Catalogue raisonné: Bern: Benteli, 2001, catalogue # 4984.
Inscriptions
Inscription Inscribed on mount: date: 1929; catalogue number: W. 8; title: Reiterspuk Abends Spät (Ghost Rider Late in the Evening)
Provenance Rudolf Probst, Dresden, c. 1930; Museum Kaiserslautern, Rhineland (deaccessioned); Emanuel and Sophie Fohn, Rome, Bolzano, Castelrotto; Galka E. Scheyer, San Francisco, c. 1939; Curt Valentin, NYC, c. 1939-40; Mrs. Arthur Laundon, Darien, CT.
Exhibition history
Dresden 1930: Paul Klee on his 50th Birthday: Watercolors from the years 1920-20, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, February -March 1930, catalogue number 80.
New York 1939: Contemporary European Painters & Sculptors, Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York, May 9-27, 1939, catalogue number 8.
Chicago 1940: The Nineteenth International Exhibition of Watercolors, The Art Institute of Chicago, April 25-May 26, 1940, catalogue number 124.
New York 1940: Paul Klee, Buchholz Gallery Curt Valentin und Willard Gallery Marian Willard, New York, October 9-November 2, 1940, catalogue number 65.
