The Light on the Balcony

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Klee

Title

The Light on the Balcony

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1925

Medium

Watercolor, with stippling and pen and black ink, on white wove paper, laid down on cream wove card

Inscriptions

Signed recto, upper left, in brush and black ink: "Klee"; dated, lower left on mount, in pen and black ink: "1925 n.2."; lower right on mount, in pen and black ink: "die Lampe auf dem Balcon"; verso, lowerleft, in graphite: "5285"

Dimensions

Primary support: 22.6 × 28.2 cm (8 15/16 × 11 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 31.7 × 39.5 cm (12 1/2 × 15 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Reference Number

2013.959

Copyright

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

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