Plants in the Courtyard
1932
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
Not on View

Details

  • Artist Name: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
  • Title: Plants in the Courtyard
  • Date: 1932
  • Medium: Oil and gouache on heavy wove paper mounted (not by the artist) on board
  • Dimensions: sheet: 14-3/4 x 21-1/8 in. (37.5 x 53.7 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.058
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

The artist, consigned in 1933 and later sold (by Lily Klee) in 1942 to;
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

The EY Exhibition: Paul Klee - Making Visible

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

Paul Klee im Rheinland

  • Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 2003-03-06 to 2003-06-29

The Blue Four

Paul Klee

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

Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2017-04-07 to 2017-09-25

Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973

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

The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 284
  • The Blue Four. Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World, 1997, no. 140 pp. 235, 353
  • Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 6, 1931-1933, 2001, fig. 5721 p. 170, 209
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 341 pp. 329-330
  • Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Paul Klee and the Rhineland, 2003, no. 79 p. 143

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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