La Kash-Ne

Inscription: Signed (lower right, in pen and black ink): Klee; dated and inscribed (on cardboard fragment mounted below work, in pen and black ink): La Kash-NE / 1933 G 3

the artist (1933–38; on consignment to Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf, 1934; on consignment to Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, Paris; sold in April 1938, for SFr 250, to Buchholz Gallery); [Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York, 1938–43; stock no. 453; sold on June 1, 1943, for $353.50, to McKim]; Mr. and Mrs. William McKim, Palm Beach, Fla. (1943–73; their gift to MMA)

New York. Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin). "Paul Klee," March 23–April 23, 1938, no. 46.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "The Sources of Modern Painting. A Loan Exhibition Assembled from American Public and Private Collections," March 2–April 9, 1939, no. 47 (as "Le Kash-né," lent by the Buchholz Gallery, New York).

New York. Wildenstein and Co., Inc. "The Sources of Modern Painting. A Loan Exhibition Assembled from American Public and Private Collections by the Institute of Modern Art," April 25–May 20, 1939, no. 35 (as "Le Kash-né," lent by the Buchholz Gallery, New York).

New York. Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin) and Willard Gallery. "Paul Klee," October 9–November 2, 1940, no. 76.

New York. Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin). "Paul Klee, André Masson & Some Aspects of Ancient and Primitive Sculpture," February 23–March 20, 1943, no. 18 (as "Le Kash-Ne").

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Accessions, 1967–1974," March 7–April 23, 1974, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee in New York," July 26–December 1, 1996, 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 Figures," October 5, 2001–March 10, 2002, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee: The Late Years," March 19–June 27, 2004, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Late Klee," October 18, 2012–March 31, 2013, no catalogue.

James S. Plaut. The Sources of Modern Painting. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, 1939, p. 56, no. 47, ill. and ill. front cover, illustrates it in comparison to an African mask.

"Is Modernism Modern?" New York Times (March 12, 1939), p. 141, ill.

Henry Geldzahler in "Twentieth Century Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965–1975. New York, 1975, p. 220, ill., calls it "Le Kash-Né"; notes that this was the first Klee to be acquired by the MMA when "a gentleman [William McKim] telephoned for an appointment and came to the office with the small oil under his arm"; comments that its title sounds like the French word for "nose-guard".

Howard Hibbard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1980). New York, 1986, pp. 506, 513, fig. 916.

Josef Helfenstein and Christian Rümelin, ed. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. Ed. Paul Klee Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne. Vol. 6, 1931–1933. New York, 2002, p. 481, no. 6470, ill.