Portrait of Mrs. Bl.

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Klee

Title

Portrait of Mrs. Bl.

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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1931

Medium

Pen and black and brown ink and graphite with smudging on off-white wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card.

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower right, in image, in brown ink: "Klee"; lower left of support, in ink: "1931 p. 8 bildnis Frau Bl. (praecis)"; lower left, in graphite: "SCI/IX"; verso, in graphite: "Buchholz" and "10881 NY"; in ink: "Inv No [crossed out]" and "ZT/RJ"

Dimensions

Primary support: 33.6 × 21 cm (13 1/4 × 8 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 63.7 × 46.5 cm (25 1/8 × 18 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of the Clare Hoover Trust

Reference Number

1998.93

Copyright

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

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