Feuer Clown I (Fire Clown)

1921

Paul Klee

Artist, Swiss, 1879 - 1940

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor on paper, laid down on cardboard

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21 x 17.5 cm (8 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2004.140.12

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Helfenstein 2000, no. 5312

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Otto Ralfs, Braunschweig. James Wise, New York, until 1955, Berggruen & Cie, Paris, 1955 - 1957; Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg, New York; gift to NGA, 2004.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1967

  • Paul Klee, 1879 - 1940, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Pasadena Art Museum, 1967, no. 111.

1995

  • Paul Klee, Im Zeichen der Teilung, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1995, 359.

Bibliography

1955

  • Brion, Marcel. Klee. Paris, 1955: plate III.

1998

  • The Paul Klee Foundation. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. 9 vols. New York, 1998 - 2004: vol. 5, no. 5312.

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: Klee; lower left in black ink: 1930 d5. Feuer Clown I

Wikidata ID

Q64619068

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