About the Artwork
Plants in Moonlight
1922
Paul Klee
1879-1940
Swiss
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Pen and black ink, watercolor, and gouache on laid paper mounted on thin cardboard; decorative border of gouache on support above and below mounted sheet
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 6 1/4 inches (24.4 × 15.9 cm) Mount: 14 × 30 1/4 inches (35.6 × 76.8 cm) Framed: 16 × 12 3/8 × 1 5/8 inches (40.6 × 31.4 × 4.1 cm)
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Bequest of John S. Newberry
65.237
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Signed, in pen and black ink, lower left margin: Klee
Inscribed, lower margin: 1922 /149 Pflantzen im Mondschein Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: S. Cl Inscribed, verso, center of left margin: Z
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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Goltz, H. Paul Klee 2 Gesamtausstellung 1920-25. Munich, 1925, no. 72.
The John S. Newberry Collection. Detroit, 1965, p. 51, (ill.).
Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 262-263, no. 144.
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Paul Klee, Plants in Moonlight, 1922, pen and black ink, watercolor, and gouache on laid paper mounted on thin cardboard; decorative border of gouache on support above and below mounted sheet. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.237.
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