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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 19, 2017 | Swann Galleries | New York | 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings | 444 | $****** - ****** | Durch Poseidon |
Works on Paper
21 x 29.5 cm (8.27 x 11.61 in)
Pen and brownish ink on paper adhered at the corners to the artist's original mount
Signed in blue ink, lower right recto, and titled, dated and inscribed "P19" in pen and brownish ink on the mount, Beaver watermark
"Klee: Sixty Unknown Drawings," Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery), New York, January 16-March 2, 1951, no. 60; "Fifty drawings by Paul Klee: Collection of Curt Valentin, New York," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, November-December 1953, no. 49; "Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen," Galerie Schüler, Berlin, 1954, no. 49; "Paul Klee. Max Beckmann," Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, January 17-February 21, 1954, no. 49; "Paul Klee: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle 1913-40," Galerie Würthle, Vienna, February-March 1959, no. 50; "Paul Klee: Drawings and Watercolors," New Art Center Gallery, New York, January 18-February 20, 1960, no. 30.
Pen and brownish ink on paper adhered at the corners to the artist's original mount, 1940. 210x295 mm; 8 1/4x11 5/8 inches (sheet); 445x503 mm; 17 1/2x19 3/4 inches (overall mount). Beaver watermark. Signed in blue ink, lower right recto, and titled, dated and inscribed "P19" in pen and brownish ink on the mount.
Ex-collection Lily Klee, Bern, 1940; Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, by 1946; Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery), New York; G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McKenzie Lewis, Jr., Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; thence by descent.
Published Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, Stuttgart, 1954, p. 360.; Walter Mehring, Klee, Bern, 1956 , p. 25; Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Klee: La vie et l'oeuvre, Paris, 1957 (English version: London, 1957; Dutch version: Munich/Zurich, 1958); Will Grohmann, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen, Köln, 1959; Christina Kröll, Die Bildtitel Paul Klees: Eine Studie zur Beziehung von Bild und Sprache in der Kunst des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, dissertation, Bonn, 1968, p. 32; Stefan Frey, Josef Helfenstein, Paul Klee: Verzeichnis der Werke des Jahres 1940, Stuttgart, 1991; The Paul Klee Foundation, (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, Bern, 2001, no. 9238.
