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Room Perspective Red-Green
1921
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
Not on View

While teaching at the Bauhaus, Klee used perspective images to demonstrate their capacity for deception. There is a surreal quality to this room. The ordered and precise lines of linear perspective force our view toward the spindle shape left of center; the blocks and shapes fill a space devoid of people. One whimsical creature, part-insect, part-feline, holds an arrow, which draws the eye into the scene.

Room Perspective Red-Green
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Details

  • Artist Name: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
  • Title: Room Perspective Red-Green
  • Date: 1921
  • Medium: Watercolor, ink and pencil on wove paper, mounted over India ink on paper strips on cardboard
  • Dimensions: comp: 7-7/8 x 10-3/8 in. (20.0 x 26.4 cm); mount: 8-1/4 x 10-3/4 in. (21.0 x 27.3 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.055
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

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

Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation

  • Hayward Gallery, 2002-01-17 to 2002-04-01

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

Paul Klee Memorial Exhibition [organized by MOMA]

  • Los Angeles, Stendahl Art Galleries, 1941-05-08 to 1941-05-18

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

Paul Klee Memorial Exhibition [organized by MOMA]

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

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

The Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Mills College Art Gallery, 1961-01-10 to 1961-02-19

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

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

The Art of Paul Klee

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

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

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

Paul Klee

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

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
  • Paul Klee, p. 14
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 266 pp. 105-106
  • Rewald, Sabine, Paul Klee: The Berggruen Klee Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988, p. 195
  • Kersten, Wolfgang and Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee: Im Zeichen der Teilung, 1995, p. 344
  • Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 3, 1919-1922, 1999, no. 2637
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 313 pp. 286-288
  • Kudielka, Robert; and Bridget Riley, Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation, Works 1914 - 1940, 2002, fig. 21 p. 87

Additional Artwork by Artist

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