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Object Number

BR62.86

People

Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)

Title

Green-Orange Gradation with Black Half Moon

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Grün-orange Stufung mit dem schwarzen Halbmond

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1922

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/196984

Medium

Black ink and watercolor over graphite on white wove paper, mounted to off-white card

Dimensions

27.5 x 37.7 cm (10 13/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
mount: 34.8 x 47.1 cm (13 11/16 x 18 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Klee 1922/73
• inscription: l.l. of mount, black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: 1922 73 (underlined)
• inscription: l.r. of mount, black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Grün-orange Stufung

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund

Copyright

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Accession Year

1962

Object Number

BR62.86

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

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Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 110, repr.

Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 69, ill.

Harvard University Art Museums, Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997

Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 136

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Klee and Kandinsky: Works from the Harvard Collection and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/17/1981

20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/07/1981 - 11/11/1981

Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/23/1982 - 01/16/1983; Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 30, 02/10/1983 - 04/17/1983; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/08/1983 - 06/26/1983

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HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/20/2008 - 02/08/2009

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The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019

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