Paul Klee, mit Sonnenschirm (With an Umbrella), 1939 — the whole sheet: a striding figure with a red body under a yellow umbrella on a dark slate-blue ground

Paul Klee – mit Sonnenschirm (With an Umbrella), 1939 | Giclée Print

40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in — Original size, 1:1
CHF 59.00
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Paul Klee, mit Sonnenschirm (With an Umbrella), 1939 — the whole sheet: a striding figure with a red body under a yellow umbrella on a dark slate-blue ground
  • Paul Klee, mit Sonnenschirm (With an Umbrella), 1939 — the whole sheet: a striding figure with a red body under a yellow umbrella on a dark slate-blue ground
  • Klee, mit Sonnenschirm — the 50 × 70 cm print hung above an oak sideboard
  • Detail at print size: the yellow umbrella, its black handle and the small grey head on the brushed blue-black ground
  • The 40 × 50 cm sheet as printed: Klee's mit Sonnenschirm at original size, 19.65 × 36.54 cm on white paper, 10.2 cm margins at the sides
  • The 50 × 70 cm sheet as printed: Klee's mit Sonnenschirm enlarged 1.45×, 28.51 × 53.02 cm on white paper, 10.8 cm margins at the sides
  • Scale diagram: the 50 × 70 cm sheet hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard, printed image area 28.51 × 53.02 cm
  • Paul Klee, mit Sonnenschirm (With an Umbrella), 1939 — the whole sheet: a striding figure with a red body under a yellow umbrella on a dark slate-blue ground
  • Klee, mit Sonnenschirm — the 50 × 70 cm print hung above an oak sideboard
  • Detail at print size: the yellow umbrella, its black handle and the small grey head on the brushed blue-black ground
  • The 40 × 50 cm sheet as printed: Klee's mit Sonnenschirm at original size, 19.65 × 36.54 cm on white paper, 10.2 cm margins at the sides
  • The 50 × 70 cm sheet as printed: Klee's mit Sonnenschirm enlarged 1.45×, 28.51 × 53.02 cm on white paper, 10.8 cm margins at the sides
  • Scale diagram: the 50 × 70 cm sheet hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard, printed image area 28.51 × 53.02 cm
Paul Klee – mit Sonnenschirm (With an Umbrella), 1939 | Giclée Print

Paul Klee – mit Sonnenschirm (With an Umbrella), 1939 | Giclée Print

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A figure strides to the left through a dark, slate-blue night: a small grey head, a big red body like a lantern, two black stick legs, and above it all a yellow umbrella, flat as a half moon, held on one long black handle. The outlines are drawn in thick black; under the thin blue watercolour the black ground shows through, brushy and uneven. Klee made it in Bern in 1939, the last full year of his life, in which he entered more than twelve hundred works in his catalogue.

This one is no. 868 of that year. Klee signed it lower left on the sheet and wrote the date and the title on the card below, spelling it with a mark over the n, as in old German handwriting: mit Soñenschirm.

What this is. A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks from the museum's own photograph of the sheet. It is not an original and is not sold as one.

Scale
Original: 19.5 × 36.6 cm — watercolour and pencil on black ground on paper

  • 40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in — original size, 1:1. Image 19.65 × 36.54 cm.
  • 50 × 70 cm / 19.7 × 27.6 in — enlarged, 1.45× original. Image 28.51 × 53.02 cm.

Why this size. The museum's photograph holds 435 dpi at original size, so the small sheet shows the picture exactly as large as Klee made it, with a wide white border. The large sheet enlarges it as far as the file carries at 300 dpi, the floor we print to: 1.45 times, pixel for pixel, nothing added. The image measures run to the outermost edge of Klee's sheet, which is cut by hand and a few millimetres narrower at the bottom than at the top.

Not available in the United States. Klee died in 1940, so the work is in the public domain in Switzerland, the European Union and the United Kingdom. In the United States a work first published after 1930 can stay protected for 95 years from publication, and we cannot rule that out for this one. We therefore do not ship this print to US addresses.

The print
Giclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre, with a small Museartis wordmark in the lower left margin. The colour of the museum's file is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.

Provenance
Paul Klee (German, born in Switzerland, 1879–1940), mit Sonnenschirm (With an Umbrella), 1939, watercolour and pencil on black ground on paper, mounted on a second paper.

Where this comes from
The museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: the record for this sheet.

The record behind this sheet — which impression we chose and why, what we measured, what we are allowed to sell, and the framing dimensions for this sheet.

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