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Aquarium Green-Red
1921
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
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This aquarium scene formed a single watercolor when originally composed. Prior to mounting, Klee cut off the lower portion, turned it around 180 degrees, and mounted it above the larger section.

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Details

  • Artist Name: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
  • Title: Aquarium Green-Red
  • Date: 1921
  • Medium: Watercolor and ink on laid papers, mounted on Japanese laid paper mounted on thin cardboard
  • Dimensions: comp: 8-7/8 x 4-3/4 in. (22.5 x 12.1 cm); mount: 9-1/2 x 6 in. (24.1 x 15.2 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.049
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

The artist, sold 1920s to;
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

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

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  • 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

Selections from Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Seattle Art Museum, 1956-10-10 to 1956-11-04
  • Portland, Portland Art Museum, 1956-11-08 to 1956-11-30
  • , 1957-01-01 to 1957-01-31
  • Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1957-03-02 to 1957-04-01
  • Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, 1957-11-15 to 1957-12-15
  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 1958-01-14 to 1958-02-23
  • Vancouver Art Gallery, 1956-07 to 1956-08-31

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

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

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  • Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28

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
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  • Huggler, Max, The Drawings of Paul Klee, 1965, p. 23
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 270 pp. 105, 108, 112
  • Kersten, Wolfgang and Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee: Im Zeichen der Teilung, 1995, p. 346
  • Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 3, 1919-1922, 1999, no. 2718
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 320 pp. 296-297
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