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An Angel Brings What Is Desired

A work made of colored lithograph in black with additions of red and orange watercolor on cream wove paper.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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  • A work made of colored lithograph in black with additions of red and orange watercolor on cream wove paper.

Date:

1920

Artist:

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland 1879-1940

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Klee

Title

An Angel Brings What Is Desired

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1920

Medium

Colored lithograph in black with additions of red and orange watercolor on cream wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 19.9 × 14.6 cm (7 7/8 × 5 3/4 in.); Sheet: 26 × 12.8 cm (10 1/4 × 5 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Buckingham Fund, Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation Fund, and Frances S. Schaffner Principal Fund

Reference Number

1970.270

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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