Great Harbor

Prints and Drawings

1932

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Great Harbor
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.: 1932
Medium: Watercolor on off-white laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed upper right: "Klee"
Dimensions: 45.3 × 60.4 cm (17 7/8 × 23 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Elizabeth H. Paepcke
Reference Number: 1994.764
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné 6 (Bern, 2001), p. 260, no. 5918 (ill.).

San Francisco Museum of Art, Calif., “Paul Klee,” October 17-30, 1939, cat. 17.
Los Angeles, Stendahl Art Galleries, Calif., “Paul Klee,” March 11-30, 1940.

Rudolf Probst (died 1968) (Galerie Neue Kunst Fides; Das Kunsthaus), Dresden and Mannheim, until 1932 [Paul Klee Foundation]. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884-1979), Paris, until 1938 [Paul Klee Foundation]. Karl Nierendorf (1889-1947), New York, about 1938 [Paul Klee Foundation]. Galka E. Scheyer (1889-1945), Hollywood, about 1938 [Paul Klee Foundation]. Earl Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles [Paul Klee Foundation]. Bequeathed by Elizabeth Paepcke, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1994.

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