id: 144705 accession number: 1969.46 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.46 updated: 2025-08-07 23:02:42.876000 Carnival in the Snow, 1923. Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940). Watercolor; sheet: 24 x 23.5 cm (9 7/16 x 9 1/4 in.); secondary support: 34.5 x 29.3 cm (13 9/16 x 11 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.46 title: Carnival in the Snow title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1923 creation date earliest: 1923 creation date latest: 1923 current location: creditline: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art copyright: --- culture: Germany, 20th century technique: watercolor department: Drawings collection: DR - German type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 24 x 23.5 cm (9 7/16 x 9 1/4 in.); Secondary Support: 34.5 x 29.3 cm (13 9/16 x 11 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid paper laid down on beige(1) wove paper discolored to yellow-beige (artist's mount) watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, upper left, in brown ink: Klee ; SECONDARY SUPPORT, by artist, lower center, in brown ink: 1923 /// 40 Karneval im Schnee [slashes part of inscription] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1969 opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). title: Paul Klee: The Bauhaus Years opening date: 1973-09-18T04:00:00 Paul Klee: The Bauhaus Years. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (organizer) (September 18-October 28, 1973). title: Works of Paul Klee opening date: 1979-04-07T05:00:00 Works of Paul Klee. Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany (organizer) (April 7-June 4, 1979). title: Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960 opening date: 1987-09-16T04:00:00 Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987). title: Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure opening date: 1991-11-05T05:00:00 Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992). title: Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper opening date: 2018-01-14T05:00:00 Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE "This work was found in the estate of a young graphic designer after his death in 1944. This young man must have been a personal acquaintance of Klee's." (letter from Doris Ryser of Karl u. Faber in departmental file); [Karl u. Faber, Munich, Dec. 11-12, 1968, lot no. 957]; [E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 196 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n220 Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969. page number: Mentioned: p. 1 url: https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n1 Kupka, Frank, Paul Klee, Larry Poons, Richard Hunt, and Edward B. Henning. “A Group of Twentieth-Century Works of Art Recently Acquired.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 4 (April 1970): 107–126. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 112-117, fig. 9 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152324 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 246 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n266 Henning, Edward B. The Spirit of Surrealism. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979. page number: Mentioned: p. 108, 173; Reproduced: p. 108 url: Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 130, no. 39 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.46/1969.46_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.46/1969.46_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.46/1969.46_full.tif