Artist: Paul Klee, Swiss, 1879–1940
Red/Green Architecture (yellow/violet gradation)
1922
Oil on canvas with red watercolor border around edges of canvas, laid down on cardboard mat
37.9 × 42.9 cm (14 15/16 × 16 7/8 in.)
Gift of Collection Société Anonyme
1941.533
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Swiss
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
Purchased from Der Sturm, Berlin, 1922, according to the later recollection of KSD
Bibliography:
Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 197, ill.
Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 380, no. 394, ill.
Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 142.
Christian Geelhaar, Paul Klee and the Bauhaus (Bath, United Kingdom: Adams and Dart, 1973), 48.
Jurg Spiller, The Notebooks of Paul Klee: The Thinking Eye, 2 vols. (New York: George Wittenborn Inc., 1973), ill.
Reality and Fantasy, 1900–1954, exh. cat. (Minneapolis, Minn.: Walker Art Center, 1954).
Clark V. Poling, Bauhaus Color, exh. cat. (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1975).
Christian Geelhaar, Paul Klee and the Bauhaus (Bath, United Kingdom: Adams and Dart, 1973).
Carola Giedion-Welcker, Paul Klee (New York: Viking Press, 1952).
Jürgen Glaesemer, Paul Klee: die farbigen Werke im Kunstmuseum Bern. Germälde, farbige Blätter, Hinterglasbilder und Plastiken, exh. cat. (Bern, Germany: Verlag Kornfeld, 1976).
Jürgen Glaesemer, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen, exh. cat. (Bern, Germany: Kuntsmuseum, 1973–1979), Comp. cit.
Felix Klee, ed., The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898–1918 (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1964).
Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Verzeichnis des Graphischen Werkes von Paul Klee (Bern, Germany: Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1963).
James Smith Pierce, Paul Klee and Primitive Art (New York: Garland Publishing, 1976).
Paul Klee, The Notebooks of Paul Klee, ed. Jurg Spiller, 2 vols. (New York: George Wittenborn Inc., 1961).
Otto Karl Werckmeister, Versuche über Paul Klee (Frankfurt: Syndikat, 1981).
Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, 1879–1940: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1967).
Marianne L. Teuber, Paul Klee: Paintings and Watercolors from the Bauhaus Years, 1921–1931, exh. cat. (Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 1973), n.p., Comp. cit.
Jurg Spiller and Ingrid Krause, Paul Klee, 1879–1940, exh. cat. (Munich: Haus der Kunst, 1970), 37, no. 44, Comp. cit.
Siegfried Gohr, Paul Klee: Das Werk der Jahre 1919-1933: Gemälde, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik, exh. cat. (Cologne, Germany: Kunsthalle, 1979).
Jürgen Glaesemer, Paul Klee: Das Graphische und Plastische Werk : Mit Vorzeichnungen, Aquarellen und Gemälden, exh. cat. (Duisburg, Germany: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, 1974).
Paul Klee, sein Frühwerk: Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Aquarelle aus Zeit bis 1921/22, exh. cat. (Munich: Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, 1979).
Original from Yale University Art Gallery
Public Domain
