Alter Dampfer (Old Steamboat)

1922

Paul Klee

Artist, Swiss, 1879 - 1940

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil transfer drawing and watercolor on laid paper, on Klee's original mount

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 15.8 x 16.8 cm (6 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
    support: 23.4 x 24 cm (9 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.9039

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Helfenstein 2000, no. 2972

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alfred Rose. Lessing J. Rosenwald (Lugt Supp.1760b); gift 1943 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 136-137, repro.

1985

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1985-1986.

Bibliography

1943

  • Mongan, Elizabeth. Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1943: 137, repro.

1998

  • Helfenstein, Josef, and Christian Rumelin. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. III. Bern, 2000: 2972.

Inscriptions

upper left in brown ink: Klee; lower left on mount in brown ink: 1922/148; lower right on mount in brown ink: Alter Dampfer

Wikidata ID

Q64619053

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