1986.468: Suicide on the Bridge

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1986.468

People

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

Title

Suicide on the Bridge

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Selbstmörder auf der Brücke

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1913

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/221629

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on off-white, modern laid paper, mounted on cream card

Dimensions

15.8 x 11.5 cm (6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
mount: 24.1 x 19.6 cm (9 1/2 x 7 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in black ink at l.l.: Klee
• inscription: on mount, l.c. (along edge of drawing sheet), black ink, German, in artist's hand: 1913 100 Selbstmörder auf der Brücke
• inscription: On verso, u.l.: Kurt Feldhausser; l.l.: B 100 64
• label: Previously attached to verso: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn. TL43.1973 100 Master Drawings from New England Private Collections Sept. 5-Oct. 14, 1973
• label: Previously attached to verso: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Mr. and Mrs. John McAndrew 107 Dover Road Wellesley KLEE - Selfstmorder auf der Brucke; Date Rec'd May 28, 1964; Receipt No. 61.64; 132.65
• label: Previously attached to verso: Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; 100 Master Drawings; No. 76; Date 9-73 to 1-74.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Professor and Mrs. John McAndrew, Wellesley, MA; Mrs. Betty Bartlett McAndrew, by bequest; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1986.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Bequest of Betty Bartlett McAndrew

Copyright

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

Accession Year

1986

Object Number

1986.468

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Peter Selz, German Expressionist Painting, University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, 1957), p. 271, plate 107b, ill.
• Franklin W. Robinson, One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, exh. cat. (Hanover, NH, 1973), p. 166, no. 76, ill.
• Carolyn Lanchner, Paul Klee, exh. cat., Little, Brown & Company and The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY; Boston, MA, 1987), p. 87, fig. 3, ill.
• 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. 156
• John Sallis, ed., Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art, exh. cat., McMullen Museum of Art (Chestnut Hill, MA, 2012), pp. 27, 151, 163, 219, ill.
• John Sallis, Klee's Mirror, State University of New York Press (New York, 2015), p. 15, fig. 8, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

• Twentieth-Century Germanic Art from Private Collections in Greater Boston, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/23/1961 - 05/01/1961
• One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 09/05/1973 - 10/14/1973; Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, 10/26/1973 - 12/03/1973; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/14/1973 - 01/25/1974
• Paul Klee, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/17/1993 - 06/13/1993
• Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision from Nature to Art, McMullen Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill, 09/01/2012 - 12/09/2012

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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