Paul Klee (Swiss/German, 1879 - 1940)

LATERNENFEST BAUHAUS, 1922

colour lithograph and watercolour on paper

9.0 x 13.5 cm (image)

signed within image lower left: Klee

Estate of Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Melbourne
Private Collection, Italy

Paul Klee at Play, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 5 November 2019 – 14 May 2017 (another example)

Bayer, W., Gropius, W., & Gropius I., Bauhaus 1919 – 1928, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, p. 86 (illus., another example)
Thrall Soby, J., The Prints of Paul Klee, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1947, pl. 30 (illus., another example)
Franciscono, M., ’Paul Klees kubistische Graphik’ in Paul Klee; Das graphische and plastische Werk, Bern: Stämpli + Cie A.G., Duisburg, 1974, p. 54 (illus., another example)
Klee, F., Paul Klee, Rosenwind: Farbbilder, Zeichnungen und autobiographische Notizen, Herder, Germany, 1984, p. 41
Droste, M., Bauhaus 1919 – 1933, Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, 1990, p. 38 (illus.)
The Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, 1919 – 1922, Thames and Hudson, Bern, 1999, no. 3087, p. 474 (another example)
Kornfeld, E., W., Paul Klee: Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes von Paul Klee, Bern, 2005, no. 87, pp. 228, 229 (Illus., another example)
Koepnick, G., and Stamm, R., The Bauhaus Postcards, Insel Verlag, Berlin, 2019, pp. 17 (illus.), 77

Other examples of this print are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne