Hoffmanesque Fairy Tale Scene
1921
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
Not on View

Details

  • Artist Name: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
  • Title: Hoffmanesque Fairy Tale Scene
  • Date: 1921
  • Medium: Color lithograph on wove paper
  • Dimensions: comp: 12-1/2 x 9 in. (31.8 x 22.9 cm); sheet: 13-7/8 x 10-3/8 in. (35.2 x 26.4 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.038
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

Blue Four exhibition

  • Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1941-03 to 1941-04

From Paris to Pasadena: An Overview of Color Lithography, 1890-1975

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2000-10-04 to 2001-01-15

The Art of Paul Klee

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

Paul Klee

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

Bauhaus Painters; Spirit of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Oskar Schlemmer, Alexander Archipenko, Alexei Jawlensky and Others

  • Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28

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

My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
  • Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen 1921-1930, 1934, p. 38
  • Soby, James Thrall, The Prints of Paul Klee, 1945, no. 26
  • Peters, Heinz, Die Bauhausmappen: "Neue europäische Graphik" 1921-23, 1957, p. 27
  • Kornfeld, Eberhard W., Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes von Paul Klee, 1963, no. 82
  • Geelhaar, Christian, Paul Klee and the Bauhaus, 1973, p. 66
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 306 p. 131
  • Pierce, James Smith, Paul Klee and Primitive Art, 1976, p. 102
  • Rosenthal, Mark, Paul Klee and the Arrow, 1979, pp. 10, 23, 151, 161
  • Kagan, Andrew, Paul Klee: Art and Music, 1983, pp. 66, 99-101
  • Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 3, 1919-1922, 1999, no. 2714
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 319 p. 295
  • Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee, 2003, pp. 169, 413

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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