About the Artwork
Woman Reading
1925
Paul Klee
1879-1940
Swiss
Unknown
Oil transfer and watercolor on paper with laid texture solidly mounted on thin cardboard
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 18 7/8 inches (31.8 × 47.9 cm) Mount: 16 1/2 × 22 3/4 inches (41.9 × 57.8 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
30.283
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Markings
Signed, in black ink, center right of image: Klee
Inscribed, in black ink on mount, lower left: IV. Inscribed, lower center: 1925 E. Sieben. Lesende II.
Provenance
Galérie Mettler (Paris, France)
1930-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Scheyer, Ernst. Drawings and Miniatures from the XII to the XX Century. Detroit, 1936, no. 137.
The Denver Art Museum. Paul Klee in Review. Denver, 1963, no. 14.
Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 270-271, no. 148.
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Paul Klee, Woman Reading, 1925, oil transfer and watercolor on paper with laid texture solidly mounted on thin cardboard. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 30.283.
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