Into the Cave

1929

Paul Klee Swiss, 1879-1940

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About the Artwork

Title Into the Cave

Artwork Date 1929

Artist Paul Klee

Life Dates 1879-1940

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Swiss

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and pastel on paper with laid texture mounted on thin cardboard; decorative lines in brown ink on support above and below mounted sheet

Dimensions Sheet: 12 × 18 inches (30.5 × 45.7 cm) Sheet (with border): 11 3/4 × 8 inches (29.8 × 20.3 cm) Mount: 16 1/8 × 20 5/8 inches (41 × 52.4 cm) Framed: 25 1/8 × 30 × 1 inches (63.8 × 76.2 × 2.5 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 70.340

Markings

Signed Signed, in dark brown ink at upper right: Klee

Inscriptions Inscribed, dated and titled at lower center: 1929 T.3 in die Hohle Inscribed, in pencil in margin, lower left: VI Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: 9. 043 Inscribed, verso, upper left corner: B 10602

Marks Purple customs stamp, verso, upper left corner: Douane Centrale Exportation Paris

Provenance

1948, Buchholz Gallery (New York, New York, USA)

Robert H. Tannahill (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Handbook of the DIA. Detroit, 1971, p. 203.

Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 274-275, no. 150.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Paul Klee, Into the Cave, 1929, pen and brown ink, watercolor, and pastel on paper with laid texture mounted on thin cardboard; decorative lines in brown ink on support above and below mounted sheet. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.340.