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Folly
1922
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
Not on View
A black and white abstract print of a figure with a long nose, multiple arms, a small cross on top of their head, and an image of another head in their lower body
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Details

  • Artist Name: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
  • Title: Folly
  • Date: 1922
  • Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
  • Dimensions: comp: 7-3/4 x 6-1/8 in. (19.7 x 15.6 cm); sheet: 13 x 9-7/8 in. (33.0 x 25.1 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.316

Object Information

[on loan]

  • Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), 1944 to 1953

Blue Four exhibition

  • Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1941-03 to 1941-04

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

My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
  • Grohmann, Will, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen 1921-1930, 1934, p. 38
  • Soby, James Thrall, The Prints of Paul Klee, 1945, no. 31
  • Kornfeld, Eberhard W., Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes von Paul Klee, 1963, no. 84
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 307
  • Franciscono, Marcel, Paul Klee: His Life and Work, 1991, p. 230
  • Paul Klee Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, Volume 3, 1919-1922, 1999, no. 2892
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 323 p. 302

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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