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Portrait Sketch of a Clown

A work made of graphite on cream wove paper, laid down on cream card.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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  • A work made of graphite on cream wove paper, laid down on cream card.

Date:

1926

Artist:

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Klee

Title

Portrait Sketch of a Clown

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.

1926

Medium

Graphite on cream wove paper, laid down on cream card

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "Klee"; inscribed, lower center on mount, in pen and black ink: "1926. H.7. Bildn. skizze eines Clown"

Dimensions

Primary support: 21 × 12.3 cm (8 5/16 × 4 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 28.3 × 18 cm (11 3/16 × 7 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1998.713

Copyright

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

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