Signed, in black ink, lower center of image: Klee

Label, on verso: Buchholz Gallery | Curt Valentin | 32 Est 57th Street, New York | Title and Year Fool | Artist Paul Klee. | Coll. Miss G. Scheyer | No. 9945 Red customs stamp, verso, upper right corner: Zollamt Güterbahnhof Dusseldorf

Inscribed, in black ink, lower center of margin on mount: 1924 258. Narr Inscribed, lower left: VIII Inscribed, in pencil, lower right margin: 20 3/4 x 27 Inscribed, lower right corner: 126 Inscribed, in pen and black ink, verso, near upper center: Klee "Fool" Inscribed, in blue crayon, lower right: 14

Miss G. Sheyer

dealer, Buchholz Gallery (New York, New York, USA)

Robert H. Tannahill (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Einstein, Carl. Die Kunsr des 20 Jarhunderts. Berlin, 1931, p. 539 (ill.). Paul Klee-Andre Masson. Exh. cat., Buchholz Gallery. New York, 1943, no. 5. Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 268-269, no. 147. Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Tokyo, 1989, no. 102 (ill.).

Paul Klee, Jester, 1924, watercolor, gouache, and graphite pencil on paper with laid texture mounted on thin cardboard. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.344.