About the Artwork
Into the Cave
1929
Paul Klee
1879-1940
Swiss
Unknown
Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and pastel on paper with laid texture mounted on thin cardboard; decorative lines in brown ink on support above and below mounted sheet
Sheet: 12 × 18 inches (30.5 × 45.7 cm) Sheet (with border): 11 3/4 × 8 inches (29.8 × 20.3 cm) Mount: 16 1/8 × 20 5/8 inches (41 × 52.4 cm) Framed: 25 1/8 × 30 × 1 inches (63.8 × 76.2 × 2.5 cm)
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Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.340
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Markings
Signed, in dark brown ink at upper right: Klee
Inscribed, dated and titled at lower center: 1929 T.3 in die Hohle Inscribed, in pencil in margin, lower left: VI Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: 9. 043 Inscribed, verso, upper left corner: B 10602
Purple customs stamp, verso, upper left corner: Douane Centrale Exportation Paris
Provenance
1948, 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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Handbook of the DIA. Detroit, 1971, p. 203.
Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 274-275, no. 150.
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Paul Klee, Into the Cave, 1929, pen and brown ink, watercolor, and pastel on paper with laid texture mounted on thin cardboard; decorative lines in brown ink on support above and below mounted sheet. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.340.
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