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Title:Tunisian View
Artist:August Macke (German, Meschede 1887–1914 near Perthes-les-Hurlus)
Date:1914
Medium:Black chalk and graphite on paper
Dimensions:4 1/16 × 6 1/8 in. (10.3 × 15.6 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, 1987
Object Number:1987.57
the artist (until d. 1914; his estate, from 1914; no. TuZ 21); his son, Dr. Wolfgang Macke, Bonn (in 1957); [Hutton-Hutschnecker Gallery Inc., New York, in 1969]; [Galerie Arnoldi Livie, Munich, in 1975]; [Galerie Thomas Levy, Hamburg, by 1979–at least 1983; consigned to sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, June 6, 1980, no. 828, as "Blick auf die Berge (Tunis)," not sold]; private collection, Düsseldorf; [CDR Fine Art Ltd., London, by 1986–87; sold to MMA]
Münster. Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte. "August Macke: Gedenkausstellung zum 70.Geburtstag," January 27–March 24, 1957, no. 224 (as "Blick auf die Berge [Tunis]," lent by a private collection).
Kunsthalle Bremen. "August Macke, Handzeichnungen und Aquarelle," November 8, 1964–January 3, 1965, no. 307 (as "Blick auf die Berge, Tunis").
New York. Hutton-Hutschnecker Gallery Inc. "Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke: Drawings and Watercolors," April 16–May 28,1969, no. 162 (as "Blick auf die Berge," for sale).
Munich. Galerie Arnoldi-Livie. "Meisterzeichnungen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts," Summer 1975, no. 22 (as "Blick auf die Berge," for sale).
Hamburg. Galerie Thomas Levy. "Deutsche Kunst 1900–1930," February 26–June 9, 1979, no. 167 (as "Blick auf die Berge Tunis").
Münster. Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte. "Die Tunisreise: Klee, Macke, Moilliet," December 12, 1982–February 13, 1983, no. 105 (as "Blick auf die Berge [Tunis]," lent by Galerie Levy, Hamburg).
Städtische Kunstmuseum, Bonn. "Die Tunisreise: Klee, Macke, Moilliet," March 9–April 24, 1983, no. 105.
London. CDR Fine Art Ltd. "German Expressionism," November 19–December 14, 1986, unnumbered cat. (p. 53; as "Blick auf die Berge—Tunis").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee and Friends," June 8–November 26, 1995, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "XS," December 6, 2011–April 15, 2012, no catalogue.
Bern. Zentrum Paul Klee. "Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moilliet: The Journey to Tunisia," March 14–June 22, 2014, no. 131 (as "View of the Mountains [Tunis]").
Neue Galerie New York. "Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909–1914," October 4, 2018–January 21, 2019, no. 64 (as " View of the Mountains (Tunis)").
Ulrich Bischoff. "Hamburger Galerien." Pantheon 37 (July/August/September 1979), p. 204.
Ursula Heiderich inDie Tunisreise: Klee, Macke, Moilliet. Ed. Ernst-Gerhard Güse. Exh. cat., Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte. Stuttgart, 1982, pp. 105, 317, 329, no. 105, ill. pp. 120, 246.
Ursula Heiderich. August Macke: Die Skizzenbücher. Stuttgart, 1987, vol. 1, pp. 150–51, fig. 159; vol. 2, pp. 1085, 1091, Sketchbook 63, p. (e), ill. p. 1090, calls it "Blick auf die Berge (Tunis)"; locates it still in the collection of the Galerie Levy, Hamburg.
Sabine Rewald. Paul Klee: The Berggruen Klee Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1988, p. 63, fig. 4.
Magdalena M. Moeller. August Macke: Die Tunisreise. Munich, 1989, pp. 22, 121, pl. 109, calls it "Blick auf die Berge (Tunis)" and locates it still in a private collection, courtesy of the Galerie Levy, Hamburg.
Ursula Heiderich. August Macke Zeichnungen: Werkverzeichnis. Stuttgart, 1993, pp. 648–50, no. 2504, ill., calls it "Blick auf die Berge (Tunis)".
Ursula Heiderich inThe Journey to Tunisia, 1914: Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moilliet. Ed. Zentrum Paul Klee. Exh. cat., Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern. Ostfildern, 2014, pp. 90, 326, no. 131, ill. p. 93 (color).
Ursula Heiderich inFranz Marc and August Macke: 1909–1914. Ed. Vivian Endicott Barnett. Exh. cat., Neue Galerie New York. New York, 2018, pp. 69, 183, no. 64, fig. 11 (color), ill. p. 168 (color).
Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), Münchenbuchsee 1879–1940 Muralto-Locarno)
1920
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