Death in the Garden (Legend)

1919

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879–1940

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Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Death in the Garden (Legend)
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.: 1919
Medium: Oil on cotton, on cardboard nailed to wood
Inscriptions: Signed, u.r.: Klee, dated, l.l. 1919.244
Dimensions: 27.3 × 24.8 cm (10 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
Reference Number: 1996.393
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections From the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1969), n.p., cat. 36 (ill.), as Tod im Garten (Legende).
Katherine Kuh and Dennis Adrian, The Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985),14, 68, fig.58, cat. 75 (color ill.), 110, cat. 75.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Selections From the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, Dec. 20, 1969–Feb. 1, 1970, cat. 36 as Tod im Garten (Legende).
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, Feb. 23–Apr. 14, 1985, cat. 75.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, Oct. 11, 2015–Jan. 3, 2016.

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