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Materials:

watercolor on gouacheground paper laid down on the artist's mount

Size Notes:

13 x 8

Description:

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Markings:

signed Klee(upper left); titled, dated 1931 and numbered W15.15 (on the artist's mount)

Exhibited:

Bern, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, 1935, no. 129; Ithaca, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Solinger, 1956, no. 3 (titledRemnants of a Castle); Ithaca, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, The David M. Solinger Collection: Masterworks of Twentieth-Century Art, 2002-03, p. 92, illustrated

Literature:

Josef Helfenstein and Christian Rmelin, eds., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonn, vol. VI, London and New York, 2002, no. 5660, p. 149, illustrated

Provenance:

Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the artist in 1940); Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946); Curt Valentin Gallery/Buchholz Gallery, New York and Berlin (on commission 1948-53); Acquiredfrom the above in 1953 by the present owner