Transplant Metaphysical

Prints and Drawings

1920

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Transplant Metaphysical
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1920
Medium: Watercolor and black ink transfer, with pen and black ink, touches of red gouache, and traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wood pulp laminate board
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: "Meth. Klee"
Dimensions: 27.8 × 43.8 cm (11 × 17 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Helen Keeler Burke
Reference Number: 1991.822
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Jürgen Glaesemer, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen, I (Bern, 1973), p. 285 (ill.).
Jürgen Glaesemer, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen, II (Bern, 1984), p. 33 (ill.).
Ann Temkin, Klee and the Avant-Garde 1912-1940 (New York, 1987), p. 18 (ill.).
Pamela Lynn Kort, The Ugly Face of Beauty: Paul Klee’s Images of Aphrodite (Los Angeles, 1994), p. 98 (ill.).
Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 3 (Bern, 1999), p. 237, no. 2525 (ill.).

Galerie der Sturm, “Paul Klee. Hans Mattis Teutsch. Gesamtschau,” July-August 1921, no. 97.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Paul Klee,” February 12-May 5, 1987, no. 97; also traveled to the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 24-August 16, 1987 and the Kunstmuseum, Bern, September 25, 1987-January 3, 1988.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Recent Acquisitions of Master Drawings,” August 13, 1994-January 30, 1995.

John Thompson [Paul Klee Foundation 1999]. Given by Helen Keeler Burke, Winnetka, Ill. to the Art Institute, 1991.

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