Rote Säulen vorbeiziehend (Passing By Red Pillars)

1928

Paul Klee

Artist, Swiss, 1879 - 1940

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    palette knife with color gesso, watercolor, stamped gouache, and casein on paper, on artist's original mount

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    image (approximate, measured through frame): 24 x 32.3 cm (9 7/16 x 12 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.128.23

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Helfenstein 2000, no. 4598

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to Mrs. Mellon; life interest released 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 158.

2016

  • In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1998

  • Helfenstein, Josef, and Christian Rumelin. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. V. Bern, 2000: 4598.

Inscriptions

lower left in ink: 1928.0.7; lower right in ink: rote Säulen vorbeiziehend; upper right in ink: Klee

Wikidata ID

Q64619073

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