About the Artwork
Storm over the City
1925
Paul Klee
1879-1940
Swiss
Unknown
Oil transfer and watercolor on wove paper mounted on thin cardboard; decorative lines in black ink on support above and below mounted sheet.
Sheet (with border): 15 1/8 × 16 1/2 inches (38.4 × 41.9 cm) Mount: 19 3/4 × 21 1/8 inches (50.2 × 53.7 cm) Framed: 24 1/4 × 25 × 1 inches (61.6 × 63.5 × 2.5 cm)
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Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.346
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Markings
Signed, in black ink, lower left: Klee
Inscribed, dated and titled in black ink at lower center in margin of mount: 1925 "Vnull" Sturm uber der Stadt/IV
Provenance
1944, dealer, 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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Paul Klee-Andre Masson. Exh. cat., Buchholz Gallery. New York, 1943, no. 7.
Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 272-273, no. 149.
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Paul Klee, Storm over the City, 1925, oil transfer and watercolor on wove paper mounted on thin cardboard; decorative lines in black ink on support above and below mounted sheet.. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.346.
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