In the Manner of a Leather Tapestry

Inscription: Signed (upper right): Klee; dated and inscribed on cardboard (lower left): 1925 l. 9.; (lower right): in der Art eines Lederteppichs

the artist, Dessau (1925–32; on consignment to Galka Scheyer, Los Angeles in 1928; sold by Scheyer in January 1932 to Hale); Salomon Hale, Mexico City (from 1932); sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, May 21, 1975, no. 41; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Saidenberg, New York (until 1981; their gift to MMA)

Brunswick. Schlossmuseum. "Paul-Klee-Ausstellung," January 10–February 14, 1926, no. 57 (as for sale, Mk. 300).

Kunsthaus Zürich. "Ausstellung," April 11–May 5,1926, no. 87 (as for sale, SFr 400).

Wiesbaden. Neues Museum and Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden. "August-Ausstellung 1926," August 1926, no. 100.

Oldenburg. Elisabethstrasse 2. "Vereinigung für junge Kunst," October 6–26, 1926, no catalogue.

Dresden. Galerie Ernst Arnold. "Sonderausstellung von 100 Gemälde und Aquarellen von Paul Klee aus den Jahren 1908–1926," November 1926, no catalogue (unnumbered checklist).

Düsseldorf. Galerie Alfred Flechtheim. "Landschaften aus Cagnes und Stilleben von Auguste Renoir, Paul Klee. Ölgemälde und Aquarelle," April 1927, no. 50 (dated 1926).

Hollywood. Braxton Gallery. "The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee," May 1–15, 1930, no. 17 (as "Like A Leather Carpet").

San Francisco. California Palace of the Legion of Honor. "The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee," April 23–May 8, 1931, no. 10 (as "Like A Leather Carpet").

Oakland Art Gallery. "The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee," August–September 14, 1931, no. 21 (as "Like a Leather Carpet").

New York. Saidenberg Gallery. "Honoring the Centenary of the Birth of Paul Klee: An Exhibition of Oils, Watercolors, Mixed Media and Drawings by Paul Klee Dating from 1913 to 1940," March 22–May 19, 1979, no. 29 (as "In der Art eines Lederteppichs [In the manner of a leather rug]," 1927).

Kunsthalle Mannheim. "Paul Klee. Konstruktion—Intuition," December 9, 1990–March 3, 1991, unnumbered cat. (p. 104).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paul Klee: His Teaching Years," opened April 12, 1991, no catalogue.

Bern. Zentrum Paul Klee. "Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moilliet: The Journey to Tunisia," March 14–June 22, 2014, no. 79 (as "In the Manner of a Leather Carpet").

New York. Drawing Center. "The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present," June 15–September 18, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 50).

Will Grohmann. Paul Klee: Handzeichungen 1921–1930. Potsdam, 1934, p. 20, no. 12.

Lisa M. Messinger. "Twentieth Century Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1981–1982. New York, [1982], p. 63, ill., calls it "a synthesis of the art theories and practices described in the artist's 'Pedagogical Sketchbook', published the same year" and notes its similarity to Bauhaus textile designs.

Naomi Sawelson-Gorse in The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World. Ed. Vivian Endicott Barnett and Josef Helfenstein. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern. Cologne, 1997, p. 58 n. 48, states that Scheyer sold this picture to Solomon (or Salomon or Salo) Hale, whom she met in Mexico City in 1931.

Josef Helfenstein and Christian Rümelin, ed. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. Ed. Paul Klee Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne. Vol. 4, 1923–1926. New York, 2000, p. 295, no. 3710, ill.

Margaret-Anne Logan, and Duncan Tomlin, Emily King in The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present. Exh. cat., Drawing Center. New York, 2022, pp. 234, 73, colorpl. 50.