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Hieroglyph with Fish and Bird

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

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  • A work made of graphite on off-white wove paper, laid down on tan wove card.

Date:

1917

Artist:

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Klee

Title

Hieroglyph with Fish and Bird

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1917

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper, laid down on tan wove card

Inscriptions

Signed recto, upper left, in pen and black ink: "Klee"; dated recto, lower left on mount, in pen and black ink: "1917. 142"; remnants of script in pen and iron gall ink on this reused sheet, recto, upper edge and striking through from verso, illegible

Dimensions

Primary support: 13.9 × 21.4 cm (5 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 25 × 32.2 cm (9 7/8 × 12 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Reference Number

2013.958

Copyright

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

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