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Wehgeweihtes Kind (Child Consecrated to Suffering)

© Estate of Paul Klee / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany

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© Estate of Paul Klee / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany

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Paul Klee

Swiss, 1879-1940

Wehgeweihtes Kind (Child Consecrated to Suffering), 1935

oil and watercolor on paper, mounted on board

sheet: 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (15.875 x 23.8125 cm); framed: 18 1/4 x 21 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches (46.35 x 53.66 x 3.81 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1940

RCA1940:12

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Inscriptions

inscription / on mount back, lower left / 1935 Kii III; W=geweintes Kind
signature, undated / lower left / Klee

Provenance

Nierendorf Gallery, New York;
sold to the Albright Art Gallery, May 18, 1940

Class

Paintings (visual works)

Work Type

Oil painting (visual work)
Watercolor (painting)

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