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Klee made this small watercolor in Munich in 1913, a year after 17 of his works hung in the Blue Rider’s second exhibition. The sheet is about 18 by 17 centimeters, and the clock of the title is a pale circle with a ring of dots among soft blocks of yellow, green and violet. It stayed with his wife, Lily, after his death in 1940.
watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard · sheet: 17.78 × 16.51 cm · National Gallery of Art · The Blue Rider
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Interieur mit der Uhr (Interior with the Clock)
- Artist
- Paul Klee Swiss, 1879 - 1940
- Date
- 1913
- Medium
- watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard
- Dimensions
- sheet: 17.78 × 16.51 cm (7 × 6 1/2 in.) mount: 23.81 × 21.91 cm (9 3/8 × 8 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.