Focus on this artwork and analyze the Provenance.
The Limits of Reason was first exhibited in 1926 in Rudolf Probst's Galerie Neue Kunst Fides in Dresden, along with 99 other tempera/water colors by Klee.German art dealer, art collector, journalist and publisher Alfred Flechtheim (1878–1937) acquired it for his private collection in 1928 and displayed it in his gallery in both 1928 and 1929. In 1931, he loaned it to the MoMa in New York.
By 1958 the painting, which has the inventory number 14234, was owned by Theodor and Woty Werner. In 1971, with Erich Steingräber as museum director, through the Werners' legacy, Grenzen des Verstandes became part of the permanent collection of the Bavarian State Painting Collection—the Pinakothek der Moderne—Pinakothek museum of modern art in Munich.
Dresden Pinakothek museum Galerie Neue Kunst Fides Pinakothek Munich Rudolf Probst German Pinakothek der Moderne MoMa Alfred Flechtheim