Singer of the comic opera
Finding on the reverse:
On the white backing of the cardboard: handwritten in red colour: "1927 10 III / Sängerin der / komischen Oper / Klee"; top right round French customs stamp in blue: "DOAUANE FRANCAISE [central]: RE## / De Paris Chapelle".
Bottom left inventory note of the BStGS; top left old torn-off note, remnant of a typewritten inscription: "[...] / Telefon [...]". On the nailed-on wooden frame: On the left moulding: Label of Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34, with remnant of an inscription : "[Sän]gerin / [...] mischen / [...]27"; On the right strip in blue "B 8563"; on the bottom strip note: "Sängerin der komischen Oper". The size of the frame was altered and adapted to the painting by Klee, inv. no. 14233, at an unknown date. Presumably this only happened during the BStGS, as the frame was not described during the inventory.
On the reverse of the present frame: "No[...]a" handwritten in pencil on a strip; label H.K.V. 2574, with "28" handwritten on it (cf. also inv. no. 14512, Nolde: Puppen und Papagei); in blue "R.[? or PM ligiert] Fehr"; label Kunsthalle Bern with inscription in blue "Haus Fehr"; round Swiss customs stamp: "Zoll II 27".
19/21 Nov. 1929 - at least 1930, Ludwig Katzenellenbogen (1877 - 1944) and Tilla Durieux (1880 - 1971), Berlin, acquired by the artist through the Alfred Flechtheim Gallery,
n.d. - n.d., whereabouts unknown, possibly by Hans Fehr (1874 - 1961),
02.04.1942 - 02.04.1942, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin, acquired as a purchase from an unknown private collection,
02.04.1942 - 1971, Theodor Werner (1886 - 1969) and Woty Werner (1903 - 1971, née Anneliese Rütgers), Potsdam/Berlin/Munich, acquired as a purchase from Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin,
since 1971, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich, acquired as a bequest from Theodor and Woty Werner, Munich
Staatliche Museumsagentur Bayern
Referat für Provenienzforschung
Landshuter Allee 8
80637 München
Germany