Paul Klee: The Berggruen Klee Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of Art, 1988 - 319 pages "The German painter Paul Klee (1879-1940) has become one of today's most popular artists. Ninety works by Klee--including drawings, watercolors, and oils, either serious, comical, capricious, or dramatic--have recently been given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by one of the postwar era's leading art dealers and collectors, Heinz Berggruen, and are now published together in this volume for the first time. The works in the distinguished Berggruen Klee Collection, now a permanent part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's holdings, span the career of the artist from his student days in Bern in the 1890s to his death in Muralto-Locarno in 1940. All aspects of Klee both as a draftsman and as a painter are illustrated in these ninety works. Paul Klee is not only one of today's most popular artists, but he is also one of the most written about. In an illuminating addition to the vast literature on Klee, Sabine Rewald opens this study with a candid interview with the artist's only son, Felix, which took place in Bern in February 1986. Accompanied by documentary and informal photographs of the Klee family, it gives pointed and witty insights into the artist's private life. It also offers a behind-the-scenes view of the Bauhaus, where Paul Klee taught and where Felix Klee was a student. Most of the ninety works in the Berggruen Klee Collection are reproduced in full-page colorplates, and each one is accompanied by an extensive entry. These entries incorporate biographical information and quotations from Klee's letters, the latter as yet unpublished in English. The book includes an extensive chronology and a bibliography." -- Provided by publisher |
Table des matières
Foreword by Philippe de Montebello | 6 |
An Interview with Felix Klee by Sabine Rewald | 19 |
The Berggruen Klee Collection | 55 |
Provenance Exhibitions and Bibliographic References | 271 |
Chronology | 290 |
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Klees Notations from His Oeuvre Catalogue | 317 |
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1921 PROVENANCE Alfred Flechtheim April Aquarell artist August Macke Basel Bauhaus Archiv Berggruen Klee Berlin black ink lower black ink mounted black ink upper brown ink lower Buchholz Gallery Collection Felix Klee color Dated and numbered Dessau diary drawing Düsseldorf EXHIBITIONS Munich father Gabriele Münter Garden German gesso Glaesemer gouache Heinz Berggruen Ingres ink lower left ink lower right ink on laid ink upper right Inscribed Jawlensky Kairouan Klee painted Klee's oeuvre catalogue Kunstmuseum Bern laid paper laid paper bordered laid paper mounted light cardboard Lily Klee London mounted on light Munich Secession Museum of Art Neue Kunst Nierendorf painter Paris Paul Klee Paul Klee Stiftung pen and black pencil lower left Picasso Private collection Recorded in Klee's Scheyer Signed Sotheby's Stadt studio Suresnes transferred printing ink Tunisia Walter Gropius Wassily Kandinsky watercolor Watercolor and transferred Weimar wove paper mounted yellow York Zürich