Interieur mit der Uhr (Interior with the Clock)

1913

Paul Klee

Associated Names
Paul Klee

Artist, Swiss, 1879 - 1940

This painting contains abstract shapes and lines in various colors forming geometric patterns with rounded edges and overlapping layers. Earthy yellows, muted greens, pale blues, and splashes of purple create an abstract representation resembling mosaic tiles or a patchwork quilt. The painting includes sections of soft colors at the top suggesting the sky. To the right is a vertical rectangular form with three blue squares resembling a building. On the left is a circular shape among the other patches of color that looks like an abstract clock.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 17.78 × 16.51 cm (7 × 6 1/2 in.)
    mount: 23.81 × 21.91 cm (9 3/8 × 8 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.18.24

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Helfenstein 2000, no. 1049

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist's wife, Lily Klee, 1940-1946; Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, from 1946; (Curt Valentin, Berlin/ New York), acquired 1951; Grant J. Pick, Chicago; (Richard L. Feigen, New York/ Chicago), by 1960; (Berggruen & Cie, Paris), acquired 1960; (Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie, Geneva), 1974-1976; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1976, no. 199); Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1953

  • Paul Klee. Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1953, no. 3.

1968

  • Paul Klee. Galerie Elite, Lucerne, no. 10.

Bibliography

1998

  • Helfenstein, Josef, and Christian Rumelin. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. II. Bern, 2000: no. 1049 (Klee's catalogue no. 1913.147).

Inscriptions

upper left in black ink: Klee.; lower left on mount in black ink: 1913 147 Interieur mit der Uhr [all underlined]; lower left on mount in graphite: 195 x 17 Vue; lower right on mount in graphite: 205 [5 in superscript] x 18 / 12 x 12

Wikidata ID

Q64619075

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