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Garden
1915
Paul Klee
1879-1940
Swiss
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Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper mounted on thin cardboard
Sheet: 5 1/8 × 9 1/2 inches (13 × 24.1 cm) Framed: 13 1/2 × 17 7/8 × 7/8 inches (34.3 × 45.4 × 2.2 cm)
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Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.342
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Signed, lower right: Klee
Inscribed, in brown ink, lower left: 1915 162 Inscribed, in red pencil, verso, upper left: No 830 [in rectangle] Inscribed, in pencil, verso, near lower center below Kunsthalle Mannheim stamp: 2554 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, near lower center: Paul Klee | Garten 1915 | 162 | Berliner Katalog "Der Sturm" 7 (Febr.1917.)
Stamp, on verso, in brown ink, left of center: Kunsthalle Mannheim (Lugt suppl. 1781e)
Provenance
1929, Dr. Dürr (Mannheim, Germany);1929-1937, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim (Mannheim, Germany).
August 28, 1937- May 6, 1939, confiscated by the Deutsches Reich/Reichsministerium fur Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (Berlin, Germany).
August 1938-May 6, 1939, while confiscated, stored in Depot Schloss Schönhausen (warehouse of "international reusable" works of art) (Berlin, Germany);
May 6, 1939, purchased by (Buch und Kunsthandlung Karl Buchholz, Berlin, Germany);
1939-1945, possession of (Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York, New York, USA).
by 1945, acquired by (Karl Nierendorf Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
1945-1970, sold to 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. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 112 (ill.).
Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 256-257, no. 141.
Tiedemann, Anja. Die "entartete" Moderne und ihr amerikanischer Markt. Karl Buchholz und Curt Valentin als Händler verfemter Kunst. Berlin 2013: Schriften der Forschungsstelle „Entartete Kunst“, vol. 8, pp. 175, 365.
"Entartete" Kunst: digital reproduction of a typescript inventory. Reichsministerium fur Volksaufklarung und Propaganda, ca. 1941/1942. Vol. 2, page 143. (V&A NAL MSL/1996/7) London: Victoria and Albert Museum, January 2014. [http://www.vam.ac.uk/entartetekunst]
Datenbank zum Beschlagnahmeinventar der Aktion "Entartete Kunst", Forschungsstelle "Entartete Kunst", FU Berlin. [http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/db_entart_kunst]
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Paul Klee, Garden, 1915, watercolor over graphite pencil on paper mounted on thin cardboard. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.342.
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