Paul Klee
Arabian Princess
1923
Scroll
Paul Klee
Arabian Princess
1923
Physical Qualities
Opaque watercolor, Sheet: 256 x 198 mm. (10 1/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number
1930.36.1
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1930; Blanche Adler, Baltimore
Munich, Galerie Hans Goltz, "Paul Klee. 2. Geasamtasustellung 1920/25," May - June 1925, no. 149.
Hagerstown, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, "Selections from the May Collection," 27 September - 31 October 1957.
Guggenheim Museum, NY, "Paul Klee: A Retrospective Exhibition," 17 February - July 1967, cat. 71.
BMA, "20th Century Northern European Drawings and Watercolors," 4 February - 3 April, 1977.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
BMA, Cone Wing installation, 14 June - 20 October, 1986.
BMA, "As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum Collection," 14 May - 11 August, 1991.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Paul Klee," 9 September - 8 November, 1992.
Helen Molesworth and Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "European Abstraction from the Collection 1912-1948 (Rotation 1)," February 28 - June 4, 2001.
"Klee and America," The Neue Galerie, NY, 1 March - 31 May 2006; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1 June - 10 September 2006; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, 1 October 1 2006 - 14 January 2007. (Phillips and Menil only.)
Zentrum Paul Klee, "Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moillet. The Trip to Tunisia, 1914" March 14, 2014 - June 22 2014.
Hagerstown, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, "Selections from the May Collection," 27 September - 31 October 1957.
Guggenheim Museum, NY, "Paul Klee: A Retrospective Exhibition," 17 February - July 1967, cat. 71.
BMA, "20th Century Northern European Drawings and Watercolors," 4 February - 3 April, 1977.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
BMA, Cone Wing installation, 14 June - 20 October, 1986.
BMA, "As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum Collection," 14 May - 11 August, 1991.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Paul Klee," 9 September - 8 November, 1992.
Helen Molesworth and Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "European Abstraction from the Collection 1912-1948 (Rotation 1)," February 28 - June 4, 2001.
"Klee and America," The Neue Galerie, NY, 1 March - 31 May 2006; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1 June - 10 September 2006; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, 1 October 1 2006 - 14 January 2007. (Phillips and Menil only.)
Zentrum Paul Klee, "Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moillet. The Trip to Tunisia, 1914" March 14, 2014 - June 22 2014.
Vivian Endicott Barnett, 'The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002, p.316, ill.
Josef Helfenstein and Elizabeth Hutton Turner, ed. "Klee and America." Ostfilfern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006, 81, ill.
Inscribed: upper right in black ink: "Klee"; on mount, lower center in black ink: "1924 136 Prinztssin von Arabien"