Harvard Art Museums > BR78.1: Ghost in a Butcher Shop Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Ghost in a Butcher Shop (Paul Klee) , BR78.1,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 16, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/222400. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number BR78.1 People Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland) Title Ghost in a Butcher Shop Other Titles Original Language Title: Spuk in der Metzgerei Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1915 Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/222400 Physical Descriptions Medium Black ink on off-white wove paper, mounted to cream wove paper Dimensions 12 x 13.3 cm (4 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.) mount: 13.6 x 16.1 cm (5 3/8 x 6 5/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: in black ink at l.l.: Klee inscription: l.l. of mount, black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: 1915 65 inscription: l.r. of mount, black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Spuk in der Metzg Provenance Recorded Ownership History G. David Thompson, gift; to Frederick B. Deknatel; Virginia Herrick Deknatel, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1978. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Virginia Herrick Deknatel Copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Accession Year 1978 Object Number BR78.1 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History John Sallis, ed., Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art, exh. cat., McMullen Museum of Art (Chestnut Hill, MA, 2012), pp. 167-168, 226, ill. John Sallis, Klee's Mirror, State University of New York Press (New York, 2015), p. 98, fig. 39, ill (color) Exhibition History Klee and Kandinsky: Works from the Harvard Collection and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/17/1981 From the Realists to the Expressionists: Works on Paper by Central European Artists from 1870 to 1918, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1983 - 04/29/1983 Paul Klee, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/17/1993 - 06/13/1993 Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision from Nature to Art, McMullen Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill, 09/01/2012 - 12/09/2012 Subjects and Contexts The Bauhaus Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
