2005.130: Carnival-style Funeral

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2005.130

People

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

Title

Carnival-style Funeral

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Carnivalistische Leichenfeier

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1913

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/5652

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on off-white laid paper, mounted to card

Dimensions

mount: 18.3 x 27.4 cm (7 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Klee
• inscription: l.l. on card mount, black ink, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: 1913.78. Carnevalistische Leichenfeier

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Estella Katzenellenbogen (also known as Estella Kellen) by 1948]. Richard B. Sisson, New York, New York, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2005.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson

Copyright

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

Accession Year

2005

Object Number

2005.130

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Collecting Privately, exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, Maine, 1965), cat. no. 36

Exhibition History

• Collecting Privately, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/02/1965 - 09/05/1965

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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