- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2015.82
- People
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Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)
- Title
- Dried Up Cataract
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Toter Katarakt
Alternate Title: Dead Cataract - Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1930
- Culture
- Swiss
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/353952
- Location
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Level 1, Room 1500, Modern and Contemporary Art, Art in Germany Between the Wars
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- Medium
- Watercolor on primed canvas
- Dimensions
- 55.9 × 45.7 cm (22 × 18 in.)
framed: 61 × 51 × 4.5 cm (24 × 20 1/16 × 1 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: u.l.: Klee / 1930
- Provenance
- Alfred Flechtheim (to 1930); Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris (1930-1934); Jsrael Ber Neumann (from 1934); Curt Valentin [Buchholz Gallery, New York], sold; to Joy and Marion Levy (1950-2002); Joy Levy (2002-2015), by bequest; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2015.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Cat. Rais. #5301
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Bequest of Joy C. and Marion J. Levy, Jr.
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 2015
- Object Number
- 2015.82
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Exhibition History
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32Q: 1500 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Expressionism-Interwar), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/10/2016 - 01/01/2050
- Subjects and Contexts
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The Bauhaus
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