BR78.1: Ghost in a Butcher Shop
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR78.1
- People
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Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)
- Title
- Ghost in a Butcher Shop
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Spuk in der Metzgerei
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1915
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/222400
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink on off-white wove paper, mounted to cream wove paper
- Dimensions
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12 x 13.3 cm (4 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.)
mount: 13.6 x 16.1 cm (5 3/8 x 6 5/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in black ink at l.l.: Klee
- inscription: l.l. of mount, black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: 1915 65
- inscription: l.r. of mount, black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Spuk in der Metzg
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- G. David Thompson, gift; to Frederick B. Deknatel; Virginia Herrick Deknatel, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1978.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Virginia Herrick Deknatel
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1978
- Object Number
- BR78.1
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- John Sallis, ed., Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art, exh. cat., McMullen Museum of Art (Chestnut Hill, MA, 2012), pp. 167-168, 226, ill.
- John Sallis, Klee's Mirror, State University of New York Press (New York, 2015), p. 98, fig. 39, ill (color)
Exhibition History
- Klee and Kandinsky: Works from the Harvard Collection and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/17/1981
- From the Realists to the Expressionists: Works on Paper by Central European Artists from 1870 to 1918, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1983 - 04/29/1983
- 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
Verification Level
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