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Description: Ankunft des Luftdrachen signed, dated and numbered 'Klee 1927 H 10' (upper left); dated and numbered again and titled '1927 H.10 "des Luftdrachen"' (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 14 3/8 x 163/4 in. (36.5 x 42.5 cm.) Painted in 1927 PROVENANCE Galerie Neue Kunst Fides (Rudolf Probst), Dresden (by 1928). Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin (1928-1933). Bauhaus, Dessau (1933). James Wise, Geneva and New York. Clapeaux (1958). Berggruen et Cie., Paris (1958). Dr. Werner Rusche, Cologne. Harcourts Gallery, San Francisco. Galerie Marie-Louise Jeanneret, Geneva. Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1986, lot 65. LITERATURE The Paul Klee Foundation, ed. Paul Klee, catalogue raisonn‚, Bern, 2001, vol. 5, p. 121, no. 4394 (illustrated). EXHIBITION Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides (Rudolf Probst), Paul Klee, Alexej von Jawlensky, January 1928, no. 10. Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee, March-April 1928, no. 28. Brussels, Galerie le Centaure, Paul Klee, R. Sintenis, December 1928, no. 21. Paris, Galerie Georges Bernheim et Cie., Paul Klee, February 1929, no. 20. Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee, October-November 1929, no. 74. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paul Klee, March-April 1930, p. 14, no. 25 (illustrated). Dusseldorf, Kunstverein f쳌r die Rheinl„nde und Westfalen, Paul Klee, June-July 1931, no. 42. Barcelona, Fundaci¢n Joan Mir¢; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig; and Budapest, Sz‚pm쳌v‚szeti M쳌zeum, Drei Ann„herungen an die Landschaft: Klee, Tanguy, Mir¢, November 1999-July 2000, p. 165, no. 21 (illustrated in color, p. 47).