Paul Klee Society, Bern (from 1946); Rolf and Catherine E. Bürgi, Bern (by 1950–54; on consignment to Buchholz Gallery [Curt Valentin], New York, 1950–54; no. 12579; sold by Buchholz in November 1954, for $1,800, to Perls); [Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills, Calif., from 1954]; Mr. and Mrs. Donald McNeil, Los Angeles (sold to Feldman); [Ronald Feldman, New York]; Heinz Berggruen, Paris and Berlin (1973–84; his gift to MMA)
Wiesbaden. Neues Museum. "Herbst-Ausstellung," spring 1924, no. 37.
Kunsthalle Mannheim. "Zwei Künstlerphantasten. Paul Klee und Alfred Kubin," November 23, 1924–January 10, 1925, checklist no. 46.
Munich. Hans Goltz. "Paul Klee: 2. Gesamtausstellung 1920/1925," May–June 1925, no. 70 (as "Schaufenster Anna Wenne").
New York. Curt Valentin Gallery. "Paul Klee," September 29–October 24, 1953, no. 8 (as "Show Window for Ladies' Underwear").
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Paul Klee," February 12–May 5, 1987, unnumbered cat. (p. 177).
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Paul Klee," June 24–August 16, 1987, unnumbered cat.
Kunstmuseum Bern. "Paul Klee: Leben und Werk," September 25, 1987–January 3, 1988, no. 118.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paul Klee: The Berggruen Klee Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 6–July 31, 1988, unnumbered cat. (p. 167).
Kunsthalle Tübingen. "Paul Klee: Die Sammlung Berggruen im Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York und im Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris," January 22–April 16, 1989, unnumbered cat. (p. 169).
London. Tate Gallery. "Paul Klee: The Berggruen Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris," May 17–August 13, 1989, unnumbered cat. (p. 169).
Mexico City. Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo. "Paul Klee: Selección de sesenta obras. The Berggruen Klee Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 1989–January 1990, no. 36.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paul Klee: Of Men and Women," opened March 27, 1990, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paul Klee: His Teaching Years," opened April 12, 1991, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Humor of Klee," May 14 or 15–October 4, 1992, no catalogue.
Haus der Kunst München. "Elan vital oder Das Auge des Eros," May 20–August 14, 1994, no. 326.
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 at the Bauhaus," April 18–August 17, 1997, no catalogue.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Sammlung Berggruen. "Klee aus New York: Hauptwerke der Sammlung Berggruen im Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 4–October 18, 1998, no. 24.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee Cities," June 22–September 5, 1999, 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's Best," May 24–September 22, 2002, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Cityscapes by Klee and Feininger," September 25, 2002–January 26, 2003, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee: His Years at the Bauhaus (1921–1931)," November 19, 2004–April 3, 2005, no catalogue.
Berlin. Neue Nationalgalerie. "Das Universum Klee / The Klee Universe," October 31, 2008–February 8, 2009, unnumbered cat. (p. 122).
Paris. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Galerie 2. "Paul Klee. L'ironie à l'oeuvre," April 6–August 1, 2016, unnumbered cat. (p. 113).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art [The Met Breuer]. "Humor and Fantasy: The Berggruen Paul Klee Collection," September 1, 2016–January 2, 2017, no catalogue.
Richard Verdi. Klee and Nature. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1984). New York, 1985, pp. 205–6, 249 n. 26, calls it "Show-window for Ladies' Lingerie," location unknown; notes that the name Anna Wenne appears in one other Klee, the watercolor " Centrifugal Memory" (1923; private collection, Lucerne; Helfenstein and Rümelin no. 3265).
Sabine Rewald. Paul Klee: The Berggruen Klee Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1988, pp. 166–69, 281, 318, ill. (color, overall and detail, and bw), translates the window's sign in this picture as Anna Wenne's "specialty" shop promising "fixed prices" with the entrance indicated in both German and French; adds that there was no actual Anna Wenne who lived or owned a shop in Weimar or Munich where Klee lived in the 1920s.
John Russell. "Playful Images Rich in Riddles by Paul Klee at the Met." New York Times (May 6, 1988), p. C30.
Marianne Vogel. Zwischen Wort und Bild. Das schriftliche Werk Paul Klees und die Rolle der Sprache in seinem Denken und in seiner Kunst. Munich, 1992, pp. 141, 168, no. 148.
Paul Bauschatz. "Paul Klee's Anna Wenne and the Work of Art." Art History 19 (March 1996), pp. 81–96, 99 n. 24, pl. 18, discusses Klee's two Anna Wenne pictures [see Ref. Verdi 1985], in relation to Kurt Schwitters' 1919 poem "Anna Blume," observing that "certain aspects of Schwitters's poetic creation seem to have transmuted themselves into some of Klee's visual creations of this time"; suggests that the two sheets of paper composing this work appear to divide the window into two panes of glass.
Jenny Anger. "Modernism and the Gendering of Paul Klee." PhD diss., Brown University, 1997, vol. 1, p. 164 n. 72, pp. 166–67; vol. 2, fig. 81 (color), calls it "Shop Window for Women's Underwear"; lists it among forty-three Klee works with the word "Fenster" or "window" in their titles; asserts that this picture is unusual among Klee's works because it emphasizes "the decorative, commercial, and feminine in modernist discourse"; reads the line between the two sheets of paper as indicating the interior of the shop, even though the entrance arrow points "to the impenetrability of the surface".
Josef Helfenstein and Christian Rümelin, ed. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. Ed. Paul Klee Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne. Vol. 3, 1919–1922. New York, 1999, p. 427, no. 2949, ill.
Dieter Scholz inThe Klee Universe. Ed. Dieter Scholz and Christina Thomson. Exh. cat., Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Ostfildern, 2008, pp. 114, 356, ill. p. 122 (color).
Annie Bourneuf. Paul Klee: The Visible and the Legible. Chicago, 2015, pp. 179–81, fig. 3.14 (color), calls it "Display Window for Ladies' Underclothing".
Marie Merio inPaul Klee. L'ironie à l'oeuvre. Ed. Angela Lampe. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Galerie 2. Paris, 2016, pp. 113, 303, ill. (color).
Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), Münchenbuchsee 1879–1940 Muralto-Locarno)
1920
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