Architecture

Prints and Drawings

1921

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Architecture
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.: 1921–1940
Medium: Watercolor and black ink transfer (monotype?), on cream laid paper, laid down on cream card
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: "Klee"
Dimensions: Max: 24 × 21.6 cm (9 1/2 × 8 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Grant J. Pick
Reference Number: 1963.404
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Wil Grohmann, Paul Klee (Stuttgart, 1954), p. 216.
Jürgen Glaesemer, Paul Klee, Handzeichnung, vol. 2 (Bern, 1984), p. 23 (ill.).
Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 3 (Bern, 1999), p. 323, no. 2712, (ill.).

Staatliches Museum Saarbrücken, Germany, “Paul Klee: Aquarelle aus 25 Jahren, 1905 bis 1930,” March 23-April 22, 1930, cat. 44.
Arts Club of Chicago, “Paul Klee: Works from Chicago Collections,” January 16-February 20, 1962, cat. 8.

The artist’s wife, Lily Klee (1876-1946), Bern, to 1946; Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, 1946-1948. Buchholz Gallery, New York, about 1948. Munsterberg. André Emmerich, New York, to 1957. Saidenberg Gallery, New York, 1957-1959. Grant J. Pick, Chicago, from 1959 [all provenance is according to the Paul Klee Foundation 1999]; given by the estate of Grant J. Pick to the Art Institute, 1963.

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