About the Artwork
Arrival of the Air Steamer
1921
Paul Klee
1879-1940
Swiss
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Oil transfer and watercolor on paper with laid texture, mounted on thin cardboard.
Sheet: 12 5/8 × 18 1/8 inches (32.1 × 46 cm) Image (with border): 10 1/2 × 13 1/8 inches (26.7 × 33.3 cm) Image (excluding border): 9 1/2 × 12 1/4 inches (24.1 × 31.1 cm) Framed: 18 × 20 1/2 × 1 3/8 inches (45.7 × 52.1 × 3.5 cm)
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Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.345
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Signed, in pen and black ink, upper right of image: Klee
Inscribed, in black ink, lower center below the yellow border: 1921/17 Ankunft des Luft-Dampfers Inscribed, in pencil, right lower margin: Paul Klee | 1921 Inscribed, in lower right corner: gelbl. Passep. | Kartong r. 55 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, center of mount: 10
Watermark: [VIDACON-LES-ANNONAY B CRAYON ANCnf MANUFac] CANSON & MONTGOLFIER
Provenance
dealer, Buchholz Gallery (New York, New York, USA);Robert H. Tannahill (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 258-259, no. 142.
Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Tokyo, 1989, no. 100 (ill.).
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Paul Klee, Arrival of the Air Steamer, 1921, oil transfer and watercolor on paper with laid texture, mounted on thin cardboard.. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.345.
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