Absorption
1919
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
Not on View

Details

  • Artist Name: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
  • Title: Absorption
  • Date: 1919
  • Medium: Pencil on wove paper, mounted on cardboard
  • Dimensions: sheet: 10-5/8 x 7-5/8 in. (27.0 x 19.4 cm); mount: 12-5/8 x 9-3/8 in. (32.1 x 23.8 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.022
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

The artist, sold April,1920 to;
Hans Goltz, Munich;
Wilhelm Uhde, Burg Lauenstein and Berlin, probably sold c. 1922-1924 to;
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937

  • Neue Galerie New York, 2014-03-13 to 2014-06-30

Die Blaue Vier: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee in der Neuen Welt

  • Kunstmuseum Bern, 1997-12-05 to 1998-03-01
  • Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, 1998-03-28 to 1998-06-28

Paul Klee

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

The Art of Paul Klee

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

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

The Blue Four

My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
  • Haas, Robert B., Du, p. 44
  • Paul Klee, p. 2
  • Burnett, David R., Art International, p. 14
  • Vishny, Michele, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, pp. 91-92
  • Werckmeister, O. K., Paul Klee, p. 46
  • Huggler, Max, The Drawings of Paul Klee, 1965, p. 16
  • Geelhaar, Christian, Paul Klee: Leben und Werk, 1974, p. 41
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 294 pp. 124, 128
  • Baumgartner, Marcel, Paul Klee und die Photographie, 1978, p. 20
  • Osterwold, Tilman, Das Selbstportrait im Zeitalter der Photographie: Maler und Photographen im Dialog mit sich selbst, 1985, pp. 31-32, 274
  • Vishny, Michele, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art, 1985, fig. 6 pp. 145-147, 148-149, 151
  • Werckmeister, O. K., The Making of Paul Klee's Career, 1914-1920, 1989, pp. 180-181
  • Osterwold, Tilman, Paul Klee: Spätwerk. Arbeiten auf Papier 1937-1939, 1990, p. 30
  • The Blue Four. Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World, 1997, no. 110 pp. 281, 350
  • Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 3, 1919-1922, 1999, no. 2138
  • Stadtmuseum Göhre, Jena, Paul Klee in Jena 1924, 1999, pp. 210-211
  • Kort, Pamela, Paul Klee: In der Maske des Mythos, 1999, pp. 10, 30-33, 48
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 306 pp. 275-276
  • Gockel, Bettina, Kunstler in System der Wissenschafter 1880-1930, 2010, Fig. 52 p. 189
  • Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, 2018, Abb. 36 pp. 44-45
  • Ed. Oliver Kase, Paul Klee: Construction of Mystery, 2018, Fig. 1 pp. 190-193

Additional Artwork by Artist

Arabian Bride Paul Klee 1924
First Drawing for "Specter of a Genius" Paul Klee 1922
Galloping Horses Paul Klee 1912

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