Mit dem Blauen Häuschen (With the Little Blue Houses)

1925

Paul Klee

Associated Names
Paul Klee

Artist, Swiss, 1879 - 1940

The image shows an assortment of geometric shapes and lines creating an abstract composition. There are dark blue dashes at the top on a textured gray background. Below, there are square and diamond shapes in red scattered across. Further down, red triangular shapes stand upright, resembling trees or toadstool mushrooms. At the lower right, blue outlined squares with small rectangular protrusions are depicted. The shapes and patterns blend together, forming a fragmented landscape or imaginative village.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and graphite on laid paper on original mount

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg

  • Dimensions

    overall: 32.5 x 21.9 cm (12 13/16 x 8 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.140.15

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Helfenstein 2000, no. 3704

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lily Klee, Bern, 1940 - 1946; Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, 1946 - 1951; (Galerie Rosengart, Luzern, 1951); Israel Ber Neumann, Berlin and New York, 1951 -1954; Saidenberg Gallery, Inc., New York, 1954 - 1955; Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg, New York; gift to NGA, 2004.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1952

  • Klee, New Art Circle, New York, 1952, no. 12.

1967

  • Paul Klee, 1879 - 1940, A Retrospective Exhibition, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, and The Pasadena Art Museum, 1967, no. 75.

Bibliography

1934

  • Grohmann, Will. Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen 1921 - 1930. Berlin, 1934: no. 6.

1998

  • The Paul Klee Foundation. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. 9 vols. New York, 1998 - 2004: vol. 4, no. 3704.

Inscriptions

upper right in black ink: Klee; lower left in black ink: 1925 I.3 mit dem blauen Häuschen

Wikidata ID

Q64619065

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