Park

1920

Paul Klee

Associated Names
Paul Klee

Artist, Swiss, 1879 - 1940

The painting displays a stylized landscape with abstract tree-like shapes and blocks of color suggesting a receding land scene. Three prominent tree shapes rise upwards in the composition, placed somewhat centrally. The brushstrokes have a blocky, almost collage-like quality, using broad splashes of color and texture to form foliage and land. The color palette is rich and earthy, with various shades of green, dark browns, maroon, lighter greens, ochres, and muted red. The piece conveys a sense of layered textures and tones in nature without providing intricate details.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithographic facsimile on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. John Alexander Pope

  • Dimensions

    image: 12.4 x 10.2 cm (4 7/8 x 4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1998.121.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kornfeld 1963, Vol. A, no. 112

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. John A. Pope, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1963

  • Kornfeld, Eberhard W. Verzeichnis des Graphischen Werkes von Paul Klee. Bern: Verlag Kornfeld and Klipstein, 1963.

1998

  • Helfenstein, Josef, and Christian Rumelin. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. II. Bern, 2000: 1245.

Inscriptions

lower left in stone below image: 1914 145; lower right in stone below image: Park; lower right below image in graphite: Klee; lower left in graphite: 107/200; by later hand, lower center in graphite: E71/1034

Wikidata ID

Q75422048

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