Translucencies, Orange-Blue, 1915

  • Paul Klee, Swiss, 1879-1940

Watercolor on off-white wove paper fully attached to a heavy paperboard support

  • Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 1/8 inches (18.7 × 23.2 cm)
  • 16 1/2 × 20 7/16 × 1 3/8 inches (41.9 × 51.9 × 3.5 cm)

Gift of anonymous donor

1991.1015

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in pen and black ink, upper left: Klee

Printed label, on backing of frame: NIERENDORF GALLERY | 18 EAST 57TH STREET. NEW YORK | ARTIST: Paul Klee [in ink] | TITLE: composition 70/785 [in ink] | NO. 70/785 [in ink] 1915 [in pencil]

Inscribed, in ink on backing of frame: owner: Mr M. D. [crossed out] Caserta | 1415 Glapin court | Detroit, Mich. | return to Nierendorf Gallery

Nierendorf Gallery (New York, New York, USA). Mr. M. D. Caserta. 1991-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

The Paul Klee Foundation and Museum of Fine Arts, Berne. Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné (1915-1918), Vol. 2. Berne, 2000, p. 240, no. 1403.

Paul Klee, Translucencies, Orange-Blue, 1915, watercolor on off-white wove paper fully attached to a heavy paperboard support. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of anonymous donor, 1991.1015.