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Paul Klee
Lightning Stroke1920

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Artist or Maker
Paul Klee
Switzerland, 1879-1940
Title
Lightning Stroke
Place Made
Switzerland
Date Made
1920
Medium
Watercolor over oil transfer drawing on paper on bristol board
Dimensions
11 5/8 × 8 1/16 in. (29.5 × 20.5 cm) Framed: 20 1/2 × 15 5/8 × 1 1/4 in. (52.07 × 39.69 × 3.18 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.53
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, until 1937; Solomon R. Gugghenheim Museum, New York, 1937-1973; [Serge Sabarsky, Inc., New York, 1973-1975]; Peter Porr, Collonge-Bellerive,1975-1980; [Serge Sabarsky, Inc New York, 1980]; Saul P. Steinberg, New York, from 1980; [Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art, Zurich]; [Berggruen & Cie, Paris]; [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, 1988-1991, sold 1991 to]; Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles, partial, fractional and promised gift 2005 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Paul Klee Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne. "Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné." London: Thames and Hudson, 1998.
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.