Red/Green Architecture (yellow/violet gradation)

1922

Not on view

Medium: Oil on canvas with red watercolor border around edges of canvas, laid down on cardboard mat
Dimensions: 14 15/16 × 16 7/8 in. (37.9 × 42.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Collection Société Anonyme
Accession Number: 1941.533
Culture: Swiss
Period: 20th century
Classification: Paintings
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Purchased from Der Sturm, Berlin, 1922, according to the later recollection of KSD

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 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), 380, no. 394, ill

Paul Klee, sein Frühwerk: Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Aquarelle aus Zeit bis 1921/22, exh. cat. (Munich: Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, 1979),

Siegfried Gohr, Paul Klee: Das Werk der Jahre 1919-1933: Gemälde, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik, exh. cat. (Cologne, Germany: Kunsthalle, 1979),

James Smith Pierce, Paul Klee and Primitive Art (New York: Garland Publishing, 1976),

Jürgen Glaesemer, Paul Klee: die farbigen Werke im Kunstmuseum Bern. Germälde, farbige Blätter, Hinterglasbilder und Plastiken, exh. cat. (Bern, Germany: Verlag Kornfeld, 1976),

Clark V. Poling, Bauhaus Color, exh. cat. (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1975),

Jürgen Glaesemer, Paul Klee: Das Graphische und Plastische Werk : Mit Vorzeichnungen, Aquarellen und Gemälden, exh. cat. (Duisburg, Germany: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, 1974),

Marianne L. Teuber, Paul Klee: Paintings and Watercolors from the Bauhaus Years, 1921–1931, exh. cat. (Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 1973), n.p., Comp. cit.

Jürgen Glaesemer, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen, exh. cat. (Bern, Germany: Kuntsmuseum, 1973–1979), Comp. cit.

Christian Geelhaar, Paul Klee and the Bauhaus (Bath, United Kingdom: Adams and Dart, 1973),

Jurg Spiller, The Notebooks of Paul Klee: The Thinking Eye, 2 vols. (New York: George Wittenborn Inc., 1973), ill

Christian Geelhaar, Paul Klee and the Bauhaus (Bath, United Kingdom: Adams and Dart, 1973), 48

Jurg Spiller and Ingrid Krause, Paul Klee, 1879–1940, exh. cat. (Munich: Haus der Kunst, 1970), 37, no. 44, Comp. cit.

Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, 1879–1940: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1967),

Felix Klee, ed., The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898–1918 (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1964),

Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Verzeichnis des Graphischen Werkes von Paul Klee (Bern, Germany: Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1963),

Paul Klee, The Notebooks of Paul Klee, ed. Jurg Spiller, 2 vols. (New York: George Wittenborn Inc., 1961),

Reality and Fantasy, 1900–1954, exh. cat. (Minneapolis, Minn.: Walker Art Center, 1954),

Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 142

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre)

l.r. on mount: Architecture rot/ grun/; l.l. on mount: 1922/ .19

Klee, Paul (1879-1940) Switzerland

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