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accession number: 1992.278
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God of War, 1937. Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940). Gouache and tempera; sheet: 35.2 x 29 cm (13 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); secondary support: 64.6 x 49.3 cm (25 7/16 x 19 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Lockwood Thompson, 1992.278
title: God of War
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creation date: 1937
creation date earliest: 1937
creation date latest: 1937
current location:
creditline: Bequest of Lockwood Thompson
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culture: Germany, 20th century
technique: Gouache and tempera
department: Drawings
collection: DR - German
type: Drawing
find spot:
catalogue raisonne: Helfenstein and Rümelin 6961
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CREATORS
* Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 35.2 x 29 cm (13 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); Secondary Support: 64.6 x 49.3 cm (25 7/16 x 19 7/16 in.)
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description: newspaper tipped onto cream(3) wove paper (artist's mount)
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inscriptions:
inscription: signed, upper left, in paint: Klee; secondary support, by artist, lower center, in brown ink: 1937 K. 5. Kriegs Gott ["37 K. 5. Kriegs Gott" underlined in graphite]; lower center, in graphite: III; verso of secondary support, upper left, in graphite: Nos 39 31 / 35 x 29 [all circled]; upper left, on separately applied label: [upper portion cropped] / 1937 [inscribed in blue ink] No [printed in black ink] 0843 [stamped in blue ink] / Paul Klee / Dieu de la Guerre / 35 x 29 [last three lines inscribed in blue ink] / Photo No [printed in black ink]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Selected Acquisitions
opening date: 1993-02-09T05:00:00
Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).
title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Exhibition of Expressionism and Related Movements. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 25 - February 28, 1939).', 'opening_date': '1939-01-25T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Paul Klee: Memorial Exhibition. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (1941); Arts Club of Chicago (1940); Portland Art Museum, Oregon (1941); San Francisco Museum of Art (April 14 - May 5, 1941); Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles (May 8 - May 18, 1941); City Art Museum, St. Louis (1941); Wellesley College, MA (1941); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1941).', 'opening_date': '1941-04-14T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Paul Klee. Buchholz Gallery/Willard Gallery, New York (October 9 - November 2, 1940).', 'opening_date': '1940-10-09T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Paul Klee: Oeuvres Récentes. Galerie Simon, Paris (January 24 - February 5, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-01-24T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Galerie Jeanne Bucher-Myrbor, Paris, sold to Lockwood Thompson)
date: September 14, 1938
footnotes:
citations:
Lockwood Thompson [1901-1992], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1938-1992
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citations:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1992-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Helfenstein, Josef and Christian Rümelin. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. Bern: Kunstmuseum Bern, 1998-2004
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 7, no. 6961
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Paul Klee: Oeuvres Récentes. Exh. Cat. Paris: Galerie Simon, 1938.
page number: Mentioned: no. 34
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Paul Klee. Exh. Cat. New York: Buchholz Gallery/Willard Gallery, 1940.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 86
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Vishny, Michèle. "Paul Klee and War: A Stance of Aloofness." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 92 (December 1978): 233-243
page number: Mentioned: p. 241
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Kersten, Wolfgang. Paul Klee, Übermut: Allegorie der künstlerischen Existenz. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 60-61; Reproduced: p. 63
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Kersten, Wolfgang and Osamu Okuda. Paul Klee: Im Zeichen der Teilung. Exh. Cat. Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1995.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 214-215
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Francis, Henry S. "Exhibition of Expressionism and Related Movements." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 2 (February 1939): 19.
page number: Mentioned: p. 19
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DeLamater, Peg. "Klee and India: Krishna Themes in the Art of Paul Klee." PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1991.
page number: Mentioned: p. 245
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"The Year in Review for 1992." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 39-72.
page number: Mentioned: p. 72, no. 230; Reproduced: p. 62
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388
DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: p. 11, pp. 260-261, 298; Reproduced: p. 261
url:
Uhde-Stahl, Brigitte. Paul Klees geheime Symbolik. Berlin : Gebr. Mann Verlag, [2018]
page number: Reproduced: p. 264; mentioned: pp. 335-337
url:
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IMAGES
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