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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 23, 2014 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 4 | $****** - ****** | Beginnende Kühle (Incipient Coolness) |
paintings
72.4 x 52.4 cm (28.5 x 20.63 in)
oil on board laid down on panel
signed Klee (lower right); indistinctly signed Klee, dated 1937, numbered qu 16 and titled on the reverse
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris (until 1939) Karl Nierendorf, Cologne, Berlin & New York (acquired in 1939)
Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery), Berlin & New York
Roy J. Friedman, Chicago (acquired from the above on 22nd May 1951)
Acquired from the estate of the above
New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Paul Klee. An Exhibition in Honor of the Sixtieth Birthday of the Artist, 1940, no. 17 New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Paul Klee, 1941, no. 2; Cincinnati, The Cincinnati Modern Art Society, Paintings by Paul Klee and Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder, 1942, illustrated in the catalogue; New York, Buchholz Gallery, Paul Klee, 1950, no. 30; Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, Paintings by Paul Klee, 1951, no. 62; Chicago, The Arts Club, Paul Klee, 1956, no. 47; New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, Paul Klee. Traces of Memory, 1998, no. 10, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Paul Klee - Fulfillment in the Late Work, 2003, no. 25, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; New York, Neue Galerie; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. & The Menil Collection, Houston, Klee in America, 2006-07, no. 94, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, no. 168, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; New York, Dactyl Foundation, Dialogues, 2008, no. 13, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
The Artist's Handlist, 1937, no. 136 (qu 16) Karl Nierendorf (ed.), Paul Klee, Paintings, Watercolors, 1913 to 1939, New York, 1941, illustrated pl. 55; Rosamund Frost, 'Klee: Pigeons Come Home to Roost', in Art News, vol. 41, June-July 1942, illustrated p. 25; Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, Geneva & Stuttgart, 1954, no. 366, illustrated p. 294; Jürg Spiller (ed.), Paul Klee. Das bildnerische Denken. Form- und Gestaltungslehre, Basel & Stuttgart, 1956, mentioned p. 517; Ellen Marsh, 'Paul Klee and the Art of Children', in College Art Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, Winter 1957, illustrated p. 145; Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Klee. A Study of his Life and Work, London, 1957, no. 122, illustrated p. 276; Max Huggler, Paul Klee. Die Malerei als Blick in den Kosmos, Frauenfeld & Stuttgart, 1969, p. 163; Jürg Spiller (ed.), Paul Klee. Unendliche Naturgeschichte. Prinzipielle Ordnung der bildnerischen Mittel verbunden mit Naturstudium, und konstruktive Kompositionswege. Form- und Gestaltungslehre, Basel & Stuttgart, 1970, illustrated p. 204; Rainer Crone & Joseph Leo Koerner, Paul Klee. Legends of the Sign, New York, 1991, illustrated fig. 7; Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, Bern, 2003, vol. 7, no. 7072, illustrated p. 261; illustrated in colour p. 286
