Remembrance Sheet of a Conception
1918
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
Not on View

Details

  • Artist Name: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
  • Title: Remembrance Sheet of a Conception
  • Date: 1918
  • Medium: Watercolor, gouache and India ink on wove papers, mounted on cardboard
  • Dimensions: comp: 10-1/8 x 6-5/8 in. (25.7 x 16.8 cm); mount: 10-5/8 x 7-1/8 in. (27.0 x 18.1 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.026
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

The artist, sold May/June 1920 to;
Hans Goltz, Munich;
[Stadtsyndicus a.D. Kauth, Berlin, sold 1925 to];
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

Kollektiv-Ausstellung: Wolf Rohricht-Paul Klee

  • Fritz Gurlitt (Gallery), 1920-02 to

Zweite Herbst-Ausstellung

  • Zurich, Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, 1919-09-04 to 1919-10-12

The EY Exhibition: Paul Klee - Making Visible

  • Tate Modern, 2013-10-14 to 2014-03-09

Paul Klee

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1986-06-05 to 1987-06-28

Paul Klee

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1987-07-23 to 1988-05-15

Die Blaue Vier: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee in der Neuen Welt

  • Kunstmuseum Bern, 1997-12-05 to 1998-03-01
  • Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, 1998-03-28 to 1998-06-28

Paul Klee 1879-1940: A Restrospective Exhibition [organized by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Pasadena Art Museum]

  • Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1967-02-21 to 1967-02-04
  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 1967-04-13 to 1967-05-14
  • Columbus Museum of Art, 1967-05-25 to 1967-06-25
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967-07-05 to 1967-08-13
  • Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1967-09-01 to 1967-09-30
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967-10-24 to 1967-11-19
  • St. Louis, Washington University, Gallery of Art, 1967-12-03 to 1968-01-05
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968-01-15 to 1968-02-15

Selections from Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Seattle Art Museum, 1956-10-10 to 1956-11-04
  • Portland, Portland Art Museum, 1956-11-08 to 1956-11-30
  • , 1957-01-01 to 1957-01-31
  • Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1957-03-02 to 1957-04-01
  • Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, 1957-11-15 to 1957-12-15
  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 1958-01-14 to 1958-02-23
  • Vancouver Art Gallery, 1956-07 to 1956-08-31

30 Years of Painting, Water Colors, Drawings and Lithographs by Paul Klee

  • Modern Institute of Art (Beverly Hills, California), 1948-09-03 to 1948-10-06

The Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Mills College Art Gallery, 1961-01-10 to 1961-02-19

Paul Klee Memorial Exhibition [organized by MOMA]

  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 1941-04-14 to 1941-05-05

Paths to Abstraction: Pioneers of Early 20th Century Painting

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1989-01-19 to 1990-01-14

The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1

  • La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14

Paul Klee: An Exhibition from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection of the Pasadena Art Museum

  • University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, 1962-05-03 to 1962-05-27

The Art of Paul Klee

  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1960-04-12 to 1960-05-08

Paul Klee: Fifty Paintings, Drawings and Prints from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1959-10-24 to 1959-12-06
  • Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, University Gallery, 1960-01-04 to 1960-02-08
  • Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1960-03 to 1960-04

The Blue Four

The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14

Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31

My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
  • Paul Klee, p. 6
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 257 pp. 99-100
  • Verdi, Richard, Klee and Nature, 1984, note 5 p. 242
  • Kersten, Wolfgang, Paul Klee: "Zerstörung der Konstruction zuliebe?", 1987, pp. 98, 151
  • Franciscono, Marcel, Paul Klee: His Life and Work, 1991, fig. 128 pp. 232-234
  • The Blue Four. Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World, 1997, no. 108 pp. 284, 349
  • Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 2, 1913-1918, 2000, no. 1922
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 302 pp. 266-267
  • Aichele, K. Porter, Paul Klee's Pictorial Writing, 2002, fig. 38 pp. 108-113

Additional Artwork by Artist

Absorption Paul Klee 1919
Arabian Bride Paul Klee 1924
First Drawing for "Specter of a Genius" Paul Klee 1922

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