Baroque Centaur (Barocker Kentaur)
1939
Artist, Swiss, 1879 - 1940
Artwork overview
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Medium
gouache on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 32.1 x 24 cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
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Accession
2004.140.11
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Catalogue Raisonné
Helfenstein 2000, no. 7987
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler [1884-1979], Paris, 1939. (Galerie Karl Nierendorf, Cologne, Berlin, and New York), c. 1939. (Buchholz Gallery, Berlin, until 1952); Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg, New York; gift to NGA, 2004.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1940
Paul Klee Exhibition, Buchholz Gallery and Willard Gallery, New York, 1940, no. 100.
1941
Paul Klee, Art Students' League of New York, 1941, no. 19.
Paul Klee: A Show, Nierendorf Gallery, New York, 1941, no. 13.
1956
Paul Klee, Berner Kunstmusem, 1956, no. 717.
1967
Paul Klee, 1879 - 1940, A Retrospective Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1967, no. 165.
Paul Klee, 1879 - 1940, Kunsthalle Basel, no. 185.
Bibliography
1941
Nierendorf, Karl. Paul Klee, Paintings and Watercolors, 1913 to 1939. New York, 1941: no. 63.
1942
Frost, Rosamund. "Klee: Pigeons Come Home to Roost," Art News 8, 1942: 24 - 25.
1954
Grohmann, Will. Paul Klee. Paris, 1954: 336.
1955
Grohmann, Will. Paul Klee. New York, 1955: 342.
1969
Huggler, Max. Paul Klee. Stuttgart, 1969: 208.
1998
The Paul Klee Foundation, Joseph Helfenstein and Christian Rümelin, eds. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. 9 vols. New York and London, 1998-2004: 8:no. 7987.
1999
Kort, Pamela, et al. Paul Klee in the Mask of Myth. Cologne, 1999: 297.
Inscriptions
lower right in black gouache: KLEE; label on verso of mount: Institute of Chicago 19th / National Exhibition / Watercolors -1940 / Paul Klee / Berne, Switzerland / Baroque Centaur / $400- / ADDRESS Nierendorf / 18 E 57 St NYC
Wikidata ID
Q64619064