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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR60.29
People
Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)
Title
Kinetic Group
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Bewegte Gruppe
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1930
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223285

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on off-white wove paper, mounted to off-white card
Dimensions
12.2 x 12.2 cm (4 13/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
mount: 26.9 x 22.8 cm (10 9/16 x 9 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Klee
  • inscription: l.c. of mount, black ink, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: 1930 [...] 4 .bewegte Gruppe

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Anonymous gift in memory of W. R. Koehler
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
BR60.29
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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), p. 222, ill.

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
  • Art of the Weimar Era, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 04/05/1982 - 05/22/1982
  • 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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