Colleagues:  My neighbor, Alan Talbert, [log in to unmask] needs help finding a Paul Klee painting. He has searched a lot and he still is looking for answers. Any librarian out there who can give him a lead?  Please, feel free to post in any other librarians’ listserv, mailing lists, blogs, etc.  

Respond directly to him if you have any suggestion, please. (See Klee information below)

 

Thank you,

Laura Soto-Barra
Senior Librarian
National Public Radio
635 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001-3753
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From: "Alan J. Talbert"
<[log in to unmask]>Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:45:29 -0400
To: Sligo Park Hills News<[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [SligoParkHillsNews] The Fairy Castle

 

About 50 years ago I bought a print of a painting by Paul Klee.  It was titled "The Fairy Castle".  Later, I lost the print.  About 8 years ago I started searching for a new print. Google found nothing by Klee under that title, and it did not find the image I remember.  I have spent countless hours going through online print collections, looking for the image.  The Paul Klee Institute has told me that Klee never made a painting under that title in any language.  I have looked at every image in the Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonne...more than 9,000 of them.  I am now going through the Catalogue again, more carefully, making a list of castle works without pictures in the Catalogue. 

 Here is my description of the painting, after about 45 years:  It is a Romanesque castle, possibly in a desert.  The scene is dramatic, with a dark cloud overhead.  At the same time it is fanciful, with flags blowing in opposite directions, and perhaps somewhat childlike in conception.  It is not abstract, as are Klee's 'Castle and Sun' and 'Castle on the Reef'.  It is representational, yet somewhat cartoonish. 

 Any information about the painting or a source for another print would be most welcome.  Where is the original, and what is it called?  Tips on searching would also be very helpful.  What I am really hoping for is that somebody else bought the print when it was available and is willing to sell it now.  I would pay well.  I do love this painting.

 Thank you for your interest.

 Alan Talbert

Sligo Hills,

Silver Spring, MD

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