Tightrope Walker

Paul Klee, 1923

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Tightrope Walker, 1923. color lithograph.

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color lithograph · Cleveland Museum of Art

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Museum title: Tightrope Walker
Artist: Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940)
Date: 1923
Medium: color lithograph
Credit line: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Cleveland Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1879–1940

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Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.