Gouache on paper on board
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Castle Mountain S
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1941
abstraction
architecture
castle
from recognisable sources
landscape
military
<p>These two works show Klee’s great imaginative and technical versatility. In <i>The Castle of Mountain S</i>, the mysterious castle seems to have emerged from the artist’s process of heavily working the paint. The freer process of ‘taking a line for a walk’ animates <i>Burdened Children</i> showing the spontaneity that Klee associated with childhood.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 2008</em></p>
paper unique gouache board
16 October 2013 – 9 March 2014
2014-03-09
14 October 2013 – 9 March 2014
2014-03-09
2013-10-14
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2013-10-16
The EY Exhibition - Paul Klee: Making Visible
Exhibition
The Castle Mountain of S.
support: 368 × 467 mm
frame: 650 × 710 × 15 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1941
<p>These two works show Klee’s great imaginative and technical versatility. In <i>The Castle of Mountain S</i>, the mysterious castle seems to have emerged from the artist’s process of heavily working the paint. The freer process of ‘taking a line for a walk’ animates <i>Burdened Children</i> showing the spontaneity that Klee associated with childhood.</p>
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<p><b>Paul Klee</b><span> 1879-1940 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/klee-the-castle-mountain-of-s-n05278" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05278</span></a> </span><b>The Castle Mountain of S.</b><span>
1930 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed on mount 'VII [crossed out] 1930 qu. 2' b.l. and 'der Schlossberg von S.' b.r.</span>
<br/><span>Gouache on paper, 14 1/2 x 18 3/8 (37 x 47)</span>
<br/><span>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1941</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
With Mayor Gallery, London (purchased from the artist through the Galerie Simon, Paris, 1935); through Leicester Galleries, London; CAS 1941</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Paul Klee</i><span>, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, June-July 1931 (221); </span><i>Paul Klee</i><span>, Mayor Gallery, London, June 1935 (4), title mistranslated as 'The Quarter on the Hill'; </span><i>Paul Klee</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, March 1941 (35); </span><i>Paul Klee 1879-1940</i><span>, National Gallery, London, December 1945-February 1946 (100); </span><i>Acquisitions of the CAS</i><span>, Tate Gallery, September-October 1946 (125); </span><i>CAS: The First Fifty Years 1910-60</i><span>, Tate Gallery, April-May 1960 (170)</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
</span><i>Studio</i><span>, CXXV, 1943, p.106; John Rothenstein, </span><i>Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery</i><span> (London 1947), pl.99 </span>
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<p><span>Executed with a palette knife. The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/medium" title="Glossary definition for 'Medium'"><span>medium</span></a> and technique are described in Klee's oeuvre catalogue as 'Kleisterfarbe (Messerarbeit)'. </span>
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<p><span>Will Grohmann wrote of this work: 'Here the technical process has determined the result. Klee certainly had no particular place in mind. The theme of a "castle" is recurrent in his work, as in that of Kafka, and signifies little more than a place which is secret and very hard to reach' (letter of 14 June 1953). </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.388, reproduced p.388 </span>
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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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abstraction architecture castle from recognisable sources landscape military