About the Artwork
Reclining
ca. 1937
Paul Klee
1879-1940
Swiss
Unknown
Oil on burlap
Unframed: 13 1/2 × 24 inches (34.3 × 61 cm) Framed: 18 7/8 × 29 7/8 × 1 1/2 inches (47.9 × 75.9 × 3.8 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Miss Edith Ferry
44.90
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Markings
Signed, upper right: Klee
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Provenance
1939, (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris, France)
1939, (Karl Nierendorf, New York, New York, USA)
Edith Ferry Hooper (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
1944-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Exercise: Art About Action. Exh. cat., Jr. Art Gallery, Louisville Free Public Library. Louisville, Kentucky, 1956, no. 20.
"Family Art Game." DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit Free Press (April 26, 1981): p. 21 (ill.).
Uhr, H. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 116 (ill.).
Helfensen, Josef and Christian Rumelin, eds. Paul Klee Catalogue Raissonne, vol. 7. Berne, 2005, no. 8264.
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Paul Klee, Reclining, ca. 1937, oil on burlap. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Miss Edith Ferry, 44.90.
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