Cesar Klein ”Madonna” Circa 1917 Oil on canvas Signed upper left: CÉSAR KLEIN. Signed on the upper stretcher bar with brush in black: CÉSAR KLEIN. There too inscribed in pen in brown on a label: N[?] 626. Fritz Gurlitt Berlin Gemälde v Cesar Klein Madon[n]a mit dem Kinde / 12.10.17 [... illegibly signed]. On the left stretcher bar a number label of the Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, inscribed in pencil: 1218 66 7/8 × 59 in. Craquelure Theodor Däubler: César Klein. Leipzig, Verlag von Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1919 (= Junge Kunst, volume 5), ill. as frontispiece / Rudolf Pfefferkorn: Cesar Klein. Berlin, Rembrandt-Verlag, 1962, p. 12 XVIII. Sonderausstellung, Cesar Klein und Ludwig Meidner. Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1918, cat. no. 3 (dated "1912“) / Gedächtnisausstellung César Klein. Munich, Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, 1955, cat. no. 7 (dated "1918“) / César Klein, Karl Peter Röhl, Richard Haizmann – Sonderausstellung. Schleswig, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, 1977, cat. no. 1, ill. p. 20 Paula Klein (second wife of the artist), Pansdorf near Lübeck / Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, Munich / Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (loan 1981–1997) / Private Collection, Berlin / Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia