(Münchenbuchsee bei Bern 1879–1940 Muralto)
‘Mannfischmannesser’, (Man fish man eater), 1920, signed, dated and titled Klee 1920, 99, pen on paper on cardboard, 32 x 26 cm (total dimension), 19 x 15 cm ( painted part), framed, (AR)

Photo certificate:
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 20 April 2015, archive no. 1503/4

Provenance:
Werner Allenbarch Collection (1903-1975) Bern, bis 1959
Berggruen & Cie, Paris, 1959
Eugene Victor Thaw & Co., New York
Robert M. Light & Co. Inc., Santa Barbara - Boston
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 1971
Galerie Transart, Milan, 1971
European Private Collection

Exhibition:
St. Gallen, Historisches Museum, Paul Klee Handzeichnungen, 16 January - 28 February 1971, no. 28

Literature:
Jean Cassou, Paul Klee in ‘Les Feuilles libres’, no. 48 May -June 1928, p. 130
Peter Neagoc, Dreams in ‘Transition’, no. 18 November 1929, pp. 64 – 65 with ill.
Jurg Spiller, Paul Klee. Unendliches Naturgeschichte. Prinzipielle Ordnung der Bildnerischen Mittel verbunden mit Naturstudium, und konstruktive Kompositionswege. Form und Gestaltungslehre, vol. 2, Basel / Stuttgart 1970, with ill.
Richard Verdi, Paul Klee´s Fish Magic. An interpretation in: ‘The Burlington Magazine’, vol. 116, no. 852, March 1974, p. 152
Anderheinz Mösser, Pfeife bei Paul Klee, in “Wall-Richartz-Jahrbuch”, vol. 39, 1977, p. 229 with ill.
Richard Verdi, Klee and Nature, London 1984, p. 182 with ill.
Paul Klee. catalogue raisonné, 1919 – 1922, ed. Paul Klee Foundation, Museum of fine arts, Berne, Thames and Hudson, London 1999, vol. 3, p. 210, no. 2444 with ill.
Martha Schneider Brody, Paul Klee: A painter and hos objects, Dissertation, The San Francisco School of Psicology, San Francisco 1998, p. 125 with ill.
Jonathan Perkins, Klee and Eros, Dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2000, p. 57 annotation 5
Vivian Endicott Barnett, From both sides of the Atlantic to the Pacific: Klee and America in the twenties, exh. cat. New York / Washington / Houston 2006 / 07, p. 40 with ill. Nicolas Fox Weber, The Bauhous Group. Six master of modernism, New York 2009, p. 157 with ill.