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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper | 178 | $****** - ****** | Mannequin | |||
Jun 21, 2018 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper | 166 | $****** - ****** | Mannequin |
Works on Paper
48 x 26.3 cm (18.9 x 10.35 in)
colored paste on paper laid down on card
signed 'Klee' (lower left); dated, numbered and titled '1940 M 15 Mannequin' (on the artist's mount)
Lily Klee, Bern (wife of the artist).
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above, 1946).
Felix Klee, Bern (acquired from the above, 1953).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above, 1965).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, September 1971.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Paul Klee, April-May 1954, no. 221.
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Klee: Werke aus dem Familienbesitz, January-March 1955, no. 363.
Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Paul Klee: Werke aus der Nachlass-Sammlung Felix Klee, December 1960-January 1961, p. 60, no. 193.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Paul Klee: Aquarellen, September-November 1963, no. 113.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Paul Klee: Spätwerke, June-September 1965, no. 34 (illustrated in color).
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Paul Klee: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, August-October 1969, p. 138, no. 166.
Kunstmuseum Bern, Paul Klee: Das Schaffen im Todesjahr, August-November 1990, p. 296, no. 244 (illustrated, p. 221).
Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Paul Klee: Im Zeichen der Teilung, January-July 1995, pp. 220-221 and 382, no. 209 (illustrated in color, p. 319 and illustrated again, p. 366).
Basel, Fondation Beyeler and Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Paul Klee, Tod und Feuer: Die Erfüllung im Spätwerk, August 2003-February 2004, p. 138, no. 104 (illustrated).
Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art and Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Paul Klee: Art in the Making, March-July 2011, p. 281, no. 132 (illustrated).
Kunstmuseum Bern and Berlin, Martin-Groupius-Bau, Itten, Klee: Kosmos Farbe, November 2012-July 2013, p. 370, no. 190 (illustrated, p. 347).
W. Kersten and O. Okuda, "Die inszenierte Einheit zerstückelter Bilder: Paul Klees Gebrauch der Schere im Jahr 1940," Paul Klee: Das Schaffen im Todesjahr, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern, 1990, pp. 101 and 104-105 (illustrated).
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Verzeichnis der Werke des Jahres 1940, Stuttgart, 1991, p. 22 (illustrated, p. 161).
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1940, Bonn, 2004, vol. 9, p. 170, no. 9274 (illustrated).
signed 'Klee' (lower left); dated, numbered and titled '1940 M 15 Mannequin' (on the artist's mount)
colored paste on paper laid down on card
Sheet size: 19 x 10 3/8 in. (48 x 26.3 cm.)
Mount size: 25 1/8 x 16 7/8 in. (63.7 x 42.6 cm.)
Painted in March 1940
