2015.80: Balloon over the Town

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2015.80

People

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

Title

Balloon over the Town

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Ballon über der Stadt

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1928

Culture

Swiss

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/353950

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Pen and ink on paper

Dimensions

sight: 45.8 x 33 cm (18 1/16 x 13 in.)
framed: 75 x 59 cm (29 1/2 x 23 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.l.: Klee
• inscription: l.c., on support: 1928 M8 Ballon über der Stadt
• label: On backing board: Buchholz Gallery / Curt Velentin / 32 East 57th Street, New York / Title & Year Balloon over Town. 1928 / Artist Paul Klee / Medium & Size Ink. 18 x 13" / No. 10407

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Lily Klee, Bern (1940-1946); Klee Gesellschaft, Bern (c. 1946); [Buchholz Gallery, New York], sold; to Joy and Marion Levy (1948-2002); Joy Levy (2002-2015), by bequest; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2015.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Cat. Rais. #4579

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Bequest of Joy C. and Marion J. Levy, Jr.

Copyright

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

Accession Year

2015

Object Number

2015.80

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Fifty Drawings by Paul Klee, brochure, Buchholz Gallery (New York, 1948), pp. 7, 11, ill.

Exhibition History

• Fifty Drawings by Paul Klee, Buchholz Gallery, 10/26/1948 - 11/13/1948

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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