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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 Evening Sale | 40A | $****** - ****** | Stilleben mit der Distelblüte (recto); Ohne Titel (verso) |
paintings
48.9 x 43.5 cm (19.25 x 17.13 in)
oil on board
signed, dated and numbered 'Klee 1919 104' (upper right, recto)
Alfred Mayer, Munich (acquired from the artist, May 1919).
Private collection, Krefeld (by 1939).
Private collection, Düsseldorf; sale, Christie's, London, 26 March 1984, lot 30.
Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie., Geneva (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 8 January 2000.
Munich, Neue Mu¨nchener Secession. 5, June 1919, p. 19, no. 83.
Munich, Galerie J.B. Neumann und Günther Franke, Sommer-Ausstellung in München, Summer 1931, no. 39 (recto illustrated).
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm-Museum, Expressionismus in Malerei und Plastik, December 1946-January 1947, no. 66 (recto illustrated, pl. 66; titled Ohne Titel).
Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Von Nolde bis Klee. Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, March 1947, no. 41 (titled Ohne Titel and with incorrect medium).
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Monet to Matisse, Modern Masters from Swiss Private Collections, October 1988-January 1989, p. 72 (recto illustrated in color, p. 73; with incorrect support).
New York, Jan Krugier Gallery and Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie., Paul Klee, Traces of Memory, May 1998-February 1999, p. 88, no. 11 (recto and verso illustrated in color, pp. 22-23).
P. Comte, Klee, Paris, 1989, pp. 90 and 254 (recto and verso illustrated in color, p. 91, figs. 115-116).
Paul Klee, His Life and Works, London, 1994, p. 44 (recto detail illustrated in color).
J. Anger, Modernism and the Gendering of Paul Klee, Ann Arbor, 1997, pp. 120 and 357.
J.-L. Ferrier, Paul Klee, Paris, 1998, p. 49 (recto illustrated in color, p. 48; with incorrect medium).
O. Okuda, "Versinkende Villen-aufsteigende Baracken. Paul Klee und die Bauhaus-Debatten über den Konstruktivismus" in Aufstieg und Fall der Moderne, exh. cat., Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, 1999, p. 336 (verso illustrated, p. 336, fig. 135).
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné 1919-1922, Bern, 1999, vol. 3, p. 94, no. 2167 (recto and verso illustrated; recto illustrated again in color, p. 65).
J. Anger, Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art, Cambridge, 2004, pp. 116, 224 and 272, note 60.
F. Graboleda, Cuerpo simbólico en Paul Klee, Madrid, 2007, pp. 222-225 (recto illustrated in color, p. 223).
F. Eggelhöfer, A Collector's Eye on Paul Klee, exh. cat., Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 2008, p. 20.
signed, dated and numbered 'Klee 1919 104' (upper right, recto)
oil on board
19 ¼ x 17 1/8 in. (48.9 x 43.5 cm.)
Painted in 1919 (recto); painted circa 1915-1919 (verso)
