Autumn Flower Artist: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879–1940)

1922

Modern and Contemporary Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

15 × 12 1/4 in. (38.1 × 31.1 cm) canvas irregular
16 11/16 × 13 1/2 in. (42.4 × 34.3 cm) canvas with border

Credit Line

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1941.534

Culture

Swiss

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Paul Klee, 1922–26; Société Anonyme, 1926–41; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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), 196, 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), 382, no. 395, 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),
  • 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 and Ingrid Krause, Paul Klee, 1879–1940, exh. cat. (Munich: Haus der Kunst, 1970), 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),
  • Carola Giedion-Welcker, Paul Klee (New York: Viking Press, 1952),
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 142
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Subject

flowers (plants) vases

Inscriptions

Signed and dated in sepia ink on canvas 1.c. "Klee 22" inscribed in sepia ink on mat below border 1.1. "1922/33"; inscribed in sepia ink on mat below border 1.r. "Herbstblume X"

Signed

Klee, Paul 1879-1940

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