Klee Register no. 1924, 286. Signed in black ink top left: “Klee”. Dated in brown ink lower left: “1924 12/12”. Dated, numbered, and inscribed in black ink on the artist’s mount, lower center: “1924 286 Angler auf Booten”. Laid down on the artist’s mount. Mount measures 8 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches. With gallery and collector’s labels verso.

One of three pen and ink drawings of figures in boats drawn by Klee towards the end of 1924, and which appear consecutively in his register. The others are in the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (no. 1924, 287 in Klee’s register) and in a private Dutch collection (no. 1924, 288 in Klee’s register, J. Helfenstein, op. cit., no. 3661).

Provenance: 
Lily Klee, Berlin, 1940-46; Klee Gesellschaft, Bern, 1946-1950; Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, 1950; Dr. Robert Schnell; Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, 24 May 1962, lot 101; L’Art, Ancien, Zurich, 1962; Martin Bodmer Foundation 1962-2002; Christie’s, New York, 23 January 2002, lot 180; private collection, 2002.  

Literature:
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen, 1921-1930, Berlin, 1934, no. 98.
J. Helfenstein et al., Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, 4, 1923-1926, Bern, 2000, no. 3659.