Garden on Debris

Prints and Drawings

1923–24

Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Garden on Debris
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.: 1923–1924
Medium: Watercolor and black ink transfer on cream wove paper, mounted on cream card
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "Klee"
Dimensions: 26.8 × 25.4 cm (10 9/16 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1943.593
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, 4 (Bern, 2000), p. 38, no. 3097 (ill.).

Kunsthalle Mannheim, “Zwei Künstlerphantasten: Paul Klee und Alfred Kubin,” November 23, 1924-January 10, 1925, cat. 36.
Wiesbaden, Germany, Neues Museum, “März-Ausstellung,” March-April 1925, cat. 62.
Munich, Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, “Paul Klee: Zweite Gesamtausstellung 1920-1925,” May-June 1925, cat. 75.
New York, Buchholz Gallery, “Paul Klee,” November 1-26, 1938, cat. 9.
Cincinnati Art Museum, “Paintings by Paul Klee and Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder,” April 7-May 3, 1942.
New York, Buchholz Gallery, “Paul Klee, André Masson & Some Aspects of Ancient and Primitive Sculpture,” February 23-March 20, 1943, cat. 3.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present,” September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio”, September 17, 2022 - January 16, 2023.

Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich [Paul Klee Foundation 2000]. Heinrich Stinnes (1867-1932), Cologne; Stinnes estate, Cologne; sold, Gutekunst and Klipstein, June 20-22, 1938, lot 524 (ill.).. Curt Valentin, New York, by 1938 [New York 1938]; sold to the Art Institute, 1943.

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