Portrait of a Pregnant Woman (Bildnis Einer Schwangeren Frau)
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
This portrait of Paul Klee’s pregnant wife, Lily, verges on caricature. The work’s bold, graphic strokes, which deftly sweep across the woman’s hair and shoulders, prefigure the energetic lines that characterize Klee’s later, abstracted works, such as the lithograph on view nearby.
Caption
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879–1940). Portrait of a Pregnant Woman (Bildnis Einer Schwangeren Frau), 1907. Pastel and brown ink on laid paper, 9 5/8 x 13 7/16 in. (24.5 x 34.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 38.110. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Portrait of a Pregnant Woman (Bildnis Einer Schwangeren Frau)
Date
1907
Geography
Place made: Europe
Medium
Pastel and brown ink on laid paper
Classification
Dimensions
9 5/8 x 13 7/16 in. (24.5 x 34.2 cm)
Signatures
Signed, "Paul Klee, 1907" in lower right of composition in ink
Credit Line
Museum Collection Fund
Accession Number
38.110
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