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The Saint of the Inner Light
1921
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
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An abstract print of a beige nude figure outlined in black, shown from the chest up in three-quarter view with closed eyes, set against a brown background
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  • Artist Name: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
  • Title: The Saint of the Inner Light
  • Date: 1921
  • Medium: Color lithograph on wove paper
  • Dimensions: comp: 12-1/4 x 6-7/8 in. (31.1 x 17.5 cm); sheet: 13-1/4 x 7-3/4 in. (33.7 x 19.7 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.046
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

Impossible Realities: Marcel Duchamp and the Surrealist Tradition

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1991-07-04 to 1992-03-08

Paul Klee Memorial Exhibition [organized by MOMA]

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

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

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

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

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

Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
  • Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen 1921-1930, 1934, p. 38
  • Soby, James Thrall, The Prints of Paul Klee, 1945, no. 24
  • Peters, Heinz, Die Bauhausmappen: "Neue europäische Graphik" 1921-23, 1957, p. 26
  • Kornfeld, Eberhard W., Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes von Paul Klee, 1963, no. 81
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 305 p. 131
  • Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 3, 1919-1922, 1999, no. 2713
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 318 p. 294

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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