The Father
1908
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
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Details

  • Artist Name: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
  • Title: The Father
  • Date: 1908
  • Medium: Ink and wash on laid paper mounted on cardboard
  • Dimensions: comp: 6-1/4 x 2-3/8 in. (15.9 x 6.0 cm); mount: 9-1/2 x 5-7/8 in. (24.1 x 14.9 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.043
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

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

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

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

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

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

The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum

  • Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05

The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World

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

My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
  • Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee, fig. 5 p. 14
  • Barilli, Renato, Arte illustrata, p. 120
  • Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee, fig. 5 p. 10
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 290 pp. 122, 127
  • Burnett, David R., Art International, 1977, p. 13
  • Vishny, Michele, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art, 1985, fig. 4 pp. 139-141
  • Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 1, 1883-1912, 1998, no. 322
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 296 pp. 259-260
  • Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee, 2003, pp. 387, 410

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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