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Maker(s):Klee, Paul
Culture:Swiss (1879-1940)
Title:Auserwählter Knabe [Chosen Boy]
Date Made:1918
Type:Drawing
Materials:Pen and watercolor on primed linen on cardboard
Measurements:Frame: 14 7/8 in x 13 3/16 in x 1 5/16 in; 37.8 cm x 33.5 cm x 3.3 cm; Sheet: 7 3/8 in x 6 in; 18.7 cm x 15.2 cm
Narrative Inscription:  LABEL: frame, verso: ctr. (written in sepia ink): This watercolor by Paul Klee/ belongs to my daughter Katharine Snelson Kaufmann / [illegible: Grifssax?] paid 3.10.71 / by her mother Mrs. Hilde Kaufmann; lwr.ctr., written in blue ink: Wer zeigt ein Kind so wie es steht? / wer stellt es ins Gestirn sind (?) gibt/ das Map (?) des Abstands ihm (?) die Hand? / 4. Duimer (?) Elegic (?) !
Accession Number:  MH 2004.L3.6
Credit Line:Anonymous Loan
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Two small watercolors; upper depicts an androgynous child in the midst of abstracted linear shapes rendered in black ink and splotches of color, as well as a ring of blue and pink spheres. Lower depicts a bird standing at lower left before a series of linear buildings and a second bird swooping down at upper right center. Abstracted suggestion of tree at right of sheet.

Subjects:
Linen; Watercolor painting

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