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The Saint
1921
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
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Klee has inscribed on the mount, lower right: "Für Emy Scheyer in Freundschaft Weihnachten 1921 Kl" [For Emmy Scheyer in friendship Christmas 1921 Klee].

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  • Artist Name: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
  • Title: The Saint
  • Date: 1921
  • Medium: Watercolor and oil transfer drawing on laid paper, mounted on thin cardboard
  • Dimensions: comp: 17-3/4 x 12-1/4 in. (45.1 x 31.1 cm); mount: 19-1/2 x 13-3/4 in. (49.5 x 34.9 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.064
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

The artist, gift Christmas 1921 to;
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

Paul Klee

  • New York, Buchholz and Willard Galleries, 1940-10-09 to 1940-11-02

Paul Klee 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition

  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1967 to

Paul Klee

  • Hamburg, Kunsthalle, 1956-12-02 to 1957-01-27

Paul Klee und Emil Nolde

  • Landesmuseum, 1942-03 to

Paul Klee

  • Kunstmuseum Bern, 1956-08-11 to 1956-11-04

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee

  • Portland, Portland Art Association and the Museum of Art, 1927-04-08 to 1927-05-01
  • Spokane, Spokane Art Association, 1927-05-15 to 1927-05-31
  • San Francisco, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-03-01 to 1927-03-20

Painted Papers: Watercolors from Durer to the Present

  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1962-03-15 to 1962-04-15

The Nineteenth International Exhibition of Watercolors

  • Art Institute of Chicago, 1940-04-25 to 1940-05-26

Paul Klee: Paintings and Watercolors from the Bauhaus Years 1921-1931

  • Des Moines Art Center, 1973-09-18 to 1973-10-28

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee

  • Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, Art Department, 1926-11 to 1926-12-28
  • Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum, 1926-10 to

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee

  • Oakland Art Gallery, 1926-05-02 to 1926-06-15

Paul Klee Memorial Exhibition [organized by MOMA]

  • Smith College Museum of Art, 1941-01-01 to 1941-01-22
  • Arts Club of Chicago, 1941-01-31 to 1941-02-28
  • Portland, Portland Art Museum, 1941-03-10 to 1941-04-09
  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 1941-04-14 to 1941-05-05
  • Los Angeles, Stendahl Art Galleries, 1941-05-08 to 1941-05-18
  • City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1941-05-22 to 1941-06-17
  • Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), 1941-06-28 to 1941-07-27

German Expressionism

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1961-04-25 to 1961-06-04

Klee and America

  • The Phillips Collection, 2006-06-16 to 2006-09-10
  • The Menil Collection, 2006-10-06 to 2007-01-28

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 1879-1940: A Restrospective Exhibition [organized by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Pasadena Art Museum]

  • Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1967-02-21 to 1967-02-04
  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 1967-04-13 to 1967-05-14
  • Columbus Museum of Art, 1967-05-25 to 1967-06-25
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967-07-05 to 1967-08-13
  • Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1967-09-01 to 1967-09-30
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967-10-24 to 1967-11-19
  • St. Louis, Washington University, Gallery of Art, 1967-12-03 to 1968-01-05
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968-01-15 to 1968-02-15

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

Paul Klee

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1987-07-23 to 1988-05-15

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee

  • California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1931-04-23 to 1931-05-08

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

50 years bauhaus

  • Stuttgart, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, 1968-05-05 to 1968-07-28
  • Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), 1968-09-19 to 1968-10-27
  • Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1968-11-30 to 1969-01-01
  • Paris, Musee National d'Art Moderne, 1969-04-01 to 1969-06-22
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, 1969-08-25 to 1969-09-26
  • Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1969-12-05 to 1970-02-01
  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1970-03-16 to 1970-04-26
  • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1970 to 1971
  • Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, 1971 to 1971

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

Paul Klee

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

The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1

  • La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14

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

My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
  • Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee, fig. 20 p. 22
  • Paul Klee, p. 16
  • Paul Klee, p. 29
  • Giedion-Welcker, Carola, Paul Klee, p. 43
  • Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee, fig. 20 p. 18
  • Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee (1879-1940), 1956, pl. 30
  • San Lazzaro, Gualtieri di, Klee: A Study of His Life Work, 1957, fig. 38 p. 264
  • Giedion-Welcker, Carola, Paul Klee in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, 1961, p. 146
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 269 pp. 105, 110
  • Pierce, James Smith, Paul Klee and Primitive Art, 1976, pp. 126-128
  • The Blue Four. Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World, 1997, no. 116 pp. 285, 350
  • Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 3, 1919-1922, 1999, no. 2698
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 317 pp. 292-293
  • Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee, 2003, pp. 199, 391, 413
  • Wünsche, Isabel, Galka E. Scheyer and the Blue Four: Correspondence 1924 - 1945, 2005, Plate VI p. 333
  • Gilbert Holzgang, Galka Scheyer : Ein Leben für Kunst und Kreativität, 2023, p. 119 (ill.)

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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