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Title:View of a Fortress
Artist:Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), Münchenbuchsee 1879–1940 Muralto-Locarno)
Date:1925
Medium:Sprayed watercolor and transferred printing ink on paper mounted on cardboard
Dimensions:11 in. × 15 7/8 in. (27.9 × 40.3 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984
Accession Number:1984.315.45
Inscription: Signed (lower right): Klee; dated and inscribed on cardboard (lower left): 1925.7; (lower right): Ansicht einer Burg
[E. V. Thaw and Co., New York, until 1962; sold in 1962 to Berggruen]; Heinz Berggruen, Paris and Berlin (1962–84; his gift to MMA)
Paris. Berggruen et Cie. "Paul Klee. Les années 20," May–July 1971, no. 45 (as a monotype).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paul Klee: The Berggruen Klee Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 6–July 31, 1988, unnumbered cat. (p. 201).
Kunsthalle Tübingen. "Paul Klee: Die Sammlung Berggruen im Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York und im Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris," January 22–April 16, 1989, unnumbered cat. (p. 205).
London. Tate Gallery. "Paul Klee: The Berggruen Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris," May 17–August 13, 1989, unnumbered cat. (p. 205).
Mexico City. Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo. "Paul Klee: Selección de sesenta obras. The Berggruen Klee Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 1989–January 1990, no. 48.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee Landscapes," November 20, 1997–February 8, 1998, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee's Line," March 18–July 9, 2000, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Cityscapes by Klee and Feininger," September 25, 2002–January 26, 2003, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee the Voyager," February 4–May 4, 2003, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee: The Late Years," March 19–June 27, 2004, no catalogue.
Ottawa. National Gallery of Canada. "Paul Klee: The Berggruen Collection from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 16, 2018–March 17, 2019, no catalogue.
Sabine Rewald. Paul Klee: The Berggruen Klee Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1988, pp. 200–201, 284, 318, ill. (color and bw), notes that Klee copied this work from a drawing executed in late 1924 and influenced by his trip to Sicily in the summer of that year (private collection, Bern; Helfenstein and Rümelin 2000, no. 3637).
Josef Helfenstein and Christian Rümelin, ed. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. Ed. Paul Klee Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne. Vol. 4, 1923–1926. New York, 2000, pp. 267, 288, no. 3688, ill., as "Ansicht einer Burg (View of a Castle)".
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Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), Münchenbuchsee 1879–1940 Muralto-Locarno)
1921
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