Junger Wald (Young Forest), 1925

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink and watercolor on laid paper, on Klee's original mount

Dimensions

overall: 9.8 x 32.2 cm (3 7/8 x 12 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Donated by Lolo Sarnoff in memory of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Martha von Hirsch

Catalogue Raisonné

Helfenstein 2000, no. 3819

Accession Number

1990.136.1

Artists / Makers

Paul Klee (artist) Swiss, 1879 - 1940

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Inscription

lower right in ink: Klee; on mount, lower left in ink: 1925 d.8.; on mount, lower right in ink: junger Wald; on mount, lower left in graphite: S[onder] Cl[asse].

Provenance

Robert von Hirsch [1883-1977], Basel; (his estate sale, Sotheby's, London, June 1978, no. 115); his step-daughter, Lili-Charlotte Sarnoff [1916-2014]; gift 1990 to NGA.

Associated Names

Hirsch, Robert von
Sarnoff, Stanley J., Mrs.
Sotheby's, London

Exhibition History

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 324-325, color repro.

Bibliography

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.324.

1998: Helfenstein, Josef, and Christian Rumelin. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. IV. Bern, 2000: 3819.