Object number1955.6.11

Schwanenteich (Swan Pond)

Date1937

Artist Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)

CultureSwiss

MediumBlack gouache over white ground on verso of poster, mounted on cream wove paper

DimensionsSheet: 19 1/2 x 16 3/4 in. (49.53 x 42.55 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd (Blanchette Hooker, class of 1931)

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

SignedSigned and dated (UL): Klee; dated (on mount, LL): 1937.vi

InscribedInscribed (on mount, LR): Schwanen teich

Bibliography"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," The Art Quarterly, XIX (Spring, 1956), 78-79 Illus.; G. di San Lazzaro, "Klee," (New York: Praeger Publishers) 1957, p. 298 Szech, Anna, Paul Klee: The Abstract Dimension (Basel: Fondation Beyler, 2017), p. 174, repr.ProvenanceAcquired form the Paul Klee Estate (April 28, 1949); Curt Valentin Gallery; Mrs. John D. Rockeller 3rd.

Vassar Exhibitions

A Taste for the Modern: Gifts from Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Edna Bryner Schwab, and Virginia Herrick Deknatel

Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, NY, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth Century Art" June 29 - September 16, 2001;

Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "A Taste for the Modern: Gifts from Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Edna Bryner Schwab, and Virginia Herrick Deknatel," June 24 - September 4, 2011;

Basel, Switzerland, Fondation Beyeler Riehen, "Paul Klee: The Abstract Dimention," October 1, 2017 - January 21, 2018. p.174, repr.

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