The Harbinger of Autumn (green/violet gradation with orange accent) (Der Bote des Herbstes [grün/violette Stufung mit orange Akzent]) Yale University Art Gallery

1922

Medium: Watercolor over traces of graphite on paper mounted on board
Dimensions: sheet: 9 1/2 × 12 5/16 in. (24.2 × 31.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Collection Société Anonyme
Accession Number: 1941.537
Geography: Made in Switzerland
Culture: Swiss
Period: Modern, 20th century
Classification: Watercolors
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Bibliography

Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 197, ill.

Robert Kudielka and Bridget Riley, Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation, exh. cat. (London: Hayward Gallery on the South Bank, 2002), 99, no. 32, 32

The Paul Klee Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne, ed., Paul Klee. Catalogue Raisonné, 9 vols (London: Thames and Hudson, 1998–2004), 384, no. 2893, vol. 3, ill.

Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 383, no. 398, fig. 398

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

watercolors

On the secondary support inscribed by the artist in pen and ink: "1922 / 69" "Der Bote des Herbstes"

On the top right in pen and ink: "Klee"

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