New House in the Suburbs

1924

Paul Klee

Associated Names
Paul Klee

Artist, Swiss, 1879 - 1940

This painting displays geometric shapes with soft edges. In the center is a form resembling a white house, with a large red triangular shape at the top and smaller beige rectangles that could be windows. To the right are vertical green lines that could be trees and a red rectangle that might be another structure. At the bottom of the painting are dark brown and blue squares, and at the top is an area with light blue and pink coloring. The paint has been applied lightly and unevenly, leaving areas where the brown background is visible. “
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On View

East Building Upper Level, Gallery 415

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gouache on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 36.4 x 46.4 cm (14 5/16 x 18 1/4 in.)
    framed: 60.9 x 71.7 x 3.8 cm (24 x 28 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1983.1.22

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Friedrich Bienert, Dresden; Bienert family; (Dr. Fritz Nathan and Dr. Peter Nathan, Zurich); purchased December 1964 by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1983 to NGA.[1]
[1] Provenance from donor's records in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1925

  • Munich, 1925, no. 27, repro.

1929

  • Dresden, 1929, no. 385, repro.

2004

  • Paul Klee. Uomo, pittore, disegnatore, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, 2004, no. 79, repro.

2006

  • Paul Klee: Tempel / Städte / Paläste [Paul Klee: Temples / Cities / Palaces], Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, 2006-2007, no. 66, fig. 116.

2007

  • Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007, no cat.

Bibliography

1932

  • Wickenhagen, Ernst. Geschichte der Kunst. Berlin, 1932: 353.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 216, repro.

1998

  • The Paul Klee Foundation, Joseph Helfenstein and Christian Rümelin, eds. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. 9 vols. New York and London, 1998-2004: 4(2001):159, no. 3386, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20192501

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