Grüne Pflanzen Blutlaus (Green Plant-Blood-Louse)
1924
Artist, Swiss, 1879 - 1940
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor with pen and black ink on gessoed cloth, on Klee's original mount
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Credit Line
Gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
sheet: 20.16 × 32.07 cm (7 15/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
mount: 31.75 × 42.86 cm (12 1/2 × 16 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1991.38.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Helfenstein 2000, no. 3492
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, 25 May 1962, no. 530); unidentified stamp on back of mount. (L'Oeil Galerie, Paris), c. 1965. Ruth Carter Stevenson; gift 1991 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2013
The EY Exhibition - Paul Klee: Making Visible, Tate, London, 2013-2014, 124.
Bibliography
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.320.
1998
Helfenstein, Josef, and Christian Rumelin. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. IV. Bern, 2000: 3492.
Inscriptions
lower left in watercolor: Klee; on cardboard, lower center in pen and ink: 1924 124 grune Pflanzen Blutlaus; lower left in pen and ink: II; lower left in graphite: S[onder]. Cl[asse].; lRv//in graphite: Viastinr. Hillgrunshilis; lRv//in graphite: 82; uLv//in graphite: 3
Wikidata ID
Q64619061