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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.113
People
Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)
Title
Falling Asleep
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1935
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/29890

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil and watercolor on paper with a chalk ground, mounted to card
Dimensions
sight: 23.9 x 23.3 cm (9 7/16 x 9 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris, 1938.; to Karl Nierendorf, New York, 1938.

NOTE: Karl Nierendorf was Klee's exclusive American dealer, per agreement with Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, his European representative. (Fontanella, "Unity in Diversity"
Karl Nierendorf and America, 1937–47, American Art Vol. 24, No.3 p.116)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Richard M. Bennett
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.113
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 217, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Re-View: European and American Art Since 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/03/2011 - 06/01/2013
  • 32Q: 1310 Surrealism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/14/2015 - 04/13/2016

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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