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Paul Klee
Moving Furniture1929

Not on view
Ink drawing with blue, yellow, and orange watercolor washes depicting a loose cityscape of geometric box forms and tiny figures on cream paper
Artist or Maker
Paul Klee
Switzerland, 1879-1940
Title
Moving Furniture
Date Made
1929
Medium
Pen and watercolor on paper on cardboard
Dimensions
17 11/16 x 11 15/16 in. (45 x 30.3 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.58
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The arist (1879-1940). [Rudolf Probst (Galerie Neue Kunst Fides; Das Kusnthaus),Dresden and Mannheim,1930-1933]; Hermann and Margrit Rupf, Bern, until 1957; [Berggruen & Cie, Paris, 1957]; [Saidenberg Gallery, New York, from 1957]; Gabrielle Financiera, London; [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, 1988-1991]; sold in 1991 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 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.
Copyright
© Zentrum Paul Klee / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / PROLITTERIS, Switzerland