About the Artwork
Der Man mit dem Mundwerk
1930
Paul Klee
1879-1940
Swiss
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Oil monotype printed in black ink on off-white wove paper mounted onto another sheet of wove paper
Sheet: 13 × 16 1/2 inches (33 × 41.9 cm) Mount: 15 1/4 × 18 1/8 inches (38.7 × 46 cm) Framed: 21 3/4 × 24 × 1 1/4 inches (55.2 × 61 × 3.2 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of John S. Newberry
65.187
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Markings
Signed, in plate, in reverse, upper right: Klee
Inscribed, in black ink on the mount, lower center: 1930 M3 der Man mit dem Mundwerk
Provenance
1964, Galerie Rosengart (Lucerne, Switzerland).John S. Newberry (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Grohmann, Will. Paul Klee Handzeichnungen II 1921-1930. Bergen, 1934, p. 36, no. 6.
The John S. Newberry Collection. Detroit, 1965, p. 50, (ill.).
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Paul Klee, Der Man mit dem Mundwerk, 1930, oil monotype printed in black ink on off-white wove paper mounted onto another sheet of wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.187.
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