Tightrope Walker
1923
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
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Details

  • Artist Name: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
  • Title: Tightrope Walker
  • Date: 1923
  • Medium: Color lithograph on Japanese wove paper
  • Dimensions: comp: 17-3/8 x 10-1/2 in. (44.1 x 26.7 cm); sheet: 19 x 12-5/8 in. (48.3 x 32.1 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.039
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

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
  • Rosenthal, Mark, Arts Magazine, pp. 106-111
  • Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen 1921-1930, p. 38
  • Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 4, 1923-1926,no. 3215 p. 107
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum,no. 329 p. 310
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena,no. 310 p. 131
  • Kornfeld, Eberhard W., Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes von Paul Klee,no. 95
  • Soby, James Thrall, The Prints of Paul Klee,no. 27

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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