Watercolor and color chalks on paper, 1937. 253x383 mm; 10x15 inches. Signed in red ink, lower left recto, and titled, dated and inscribed "p. 1" in ink, lower center recto on the artist's original mount.
Ex-collection the artist's wife Lily Klee, Bern (1940-1946); Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946); Lawrence J. Heller, Washington; Richard L.Feigen, New York and Chicago; Galerie Tarica, Ghent and Paris; private collection, Italy.
Exhibited Galleria de'foscherari, "Morandi e il suo tempo," Bologna 1985, number 111008; Museo Morandi, "Paul Klee, Figure e metamorfosi," Bologna November 25, 2000-March 4, 2001, number 81 (illustrated); Fondazione A. Mazzotta, "Paul Klee--Teatro Magico, " Milan, January 26-May 13, 2007, with the label.
Published in Spiller (editor), Paul Klee, Unendliche Naturgeschichte, Prinzipielle Ordnung der bildnerischen Mittel verbunden mit Naturstudien und konstruktive Kompositionswege, Form-und Gestaltungslehre, Basel/Stuttgart, 1970, volume 2 (illustrated).
