Blooming Plant

Prints and Drawings

1931

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Blooming Plant
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.: 1931–1940
Medium: Watercolor, with touches of gouache, over charcoal, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan wood-pulp laminate board
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "Klee"; inscribed: "1931/p. 7"
Dimensions: 59.7 × 43.2 cm (23 9/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Maxine Kunstadter
Reference Number: 1978.604
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Christof Hertel, “Genesis der Formen oder Über die Formtheorie von Klee,” Bauhaus 3 (December 1931), p. 7 (ill.).
“Paul Klee: Collection Hannah Burgi”, Du Art Magazine (February 2000).
Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné 6 (Bern, 2001), p.76, no. 5512 (ill.).

Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art, Calif., “Paintings by Paul Klee,” July 1935; also traveled to the Oakland Art Gallery, Calif., September 1935, and San Francisco, October 1935.
San Francisco Museum of Art, “Paul Klee,” January 12-February 26, 1937.
New York, 1944, cat. 54.
Arts Club of Chicago, “Paul Klee: Works from Chicago Collections,” January 16-February 20, 1962, cat. 39.

Galka E. Scheyer (died 1945), Braunschweig, New York, San Francisco and Hollywood, from 1933 [Paul Klee Foundation]; estate of Galka E. Scheyer, Pasadena, to 1954 [Paul Klee Foundation]. Sigmund W. and Maxine Kunstadter, Chicago, from 1954 [Paul Klee Foundation]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1978.

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