2009.4: N H D (provinceenhaitchde)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2009.4

People

Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)

Title

N H D (provinceenhaitchde)

Other Titles

Original Language Title: N H D (provinzenhade)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1932

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/330764

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolour on paper, mounted on card

Dimensions

sheet: 50.6 x 35.7 cm (19 15/16 x 14 1/16 in.)
mount: 64.9 x 45 cm (25 9/16 x 17 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.l. in brown inkL Klee
• (not assigned): Titled, numbered, and dated in lower margin of card: IV (in graphite) 1932.W7 N.H.D. (provinzenhade)
  On backing board: Label from Curt Valentin Gallery, indicating gallery no. 13292., 32 loan labels for temporary loan to the Fogg Art Museum
• label: Removed from backing board: Curt Valentin / 32 East 57th Street, New York / N.H.D. (provinzenhade) 1932 / Paul Klee / Watercolor 20 x 14"
• label: 31 labels removed from backing board: Fogg Art Museum Deknatel loan labels with the following loan numbers: 10688.1, 10843.1, 11833.2, 12200.5, 12299.1, 12946.4, 13327.3, 13464.1, 13959.?, 14254.1, 14496.1, 14911.1, 15303.1, 15740.3, 16259.3, 17463, 175??.8, 18296.218714.8, 20553.11, 21518.7, 22157.3, 22712.3, 23389.6, 24051.6, 24807.5, 25539.5, 27146.5, 28427.8, 29157.4

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Lily Klee, Bern (1940-1946); Klee Society, Bern (1946 - ?). Rolf and Catherine Buergi (? -1951). [Curt Valentin, Buchholz Gallery] (1951-?). Professor and Mrs. Frederick B. Deknatel, (by 1960- 1973); Virginia H. Deknatel (1973-2009); gift to Busch-Reisinger Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Bequest of Virginia H. Deknatel in memory of Frederick Brockway Deknatel

Copyright

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Accession Year

2009

Object Number

2009.4

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Paul Klee, Josef Helfenstein, and Christian Rümelin, Paul Klee, catalogue raisonné, Paul-Klee Stiftung Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern, Switzerland, 1998-2004), vol. 6, p. 268, cat. no. 5943
• John Sallis, ed., Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art, exh. cat., McMullen Museum of Art (Chestnut Hill, MA, 2012), pp. 31, 75. 163, 260, ill.

Exhibition History

• 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

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