Dampfer und Segelbōte (Dredger and Sailboat), 1931

Not on View

Medium

watercolor on laid paper, on Klee's original mount

Dimensions

image: 43.5 x 64 cm (17 1/8 x 25 3/16 in.)
support: 48.5 x 67.3 cm (19 1/8 x 26 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Helfenstein 2000, no. 5588

Accession Number

1983.1.93

Artists / Makers

Paul Klee (artist) Swiss, 1879 - 1940

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Inscription

upper left of image in brown ink: Klee; lower left below image in graphite and brown ink: [Cl XII?]; in brown ink: 1931. T.3.; lower right in brown ink: Dampfer und Segelbote

Provenance

Galerie Beyeler, Basel; G. David Thompson; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 23-24 March 1966, lot 50; Lock Galleries; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, as of 1966.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

1950: [exhibition at the Kunstmuseum, Basel]

1986: Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist

2001: A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 59, as Dampfer und Segelbote (Steamship and Sailboats).

2016: In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1998: Helfenstein, Josef, and Christian Rumelin. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. VI. Bern, 2000: 5588.

2001: A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 59.