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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 63 | $****** - ****** | Westöstliche Bauten |
Works on Paper
37.5 x 26.8 cm (14.76 x 10.55 in)
Watercolor, laid on cardboard, top and bottom with a margin stripe colored in gouache
Signed in the lower right
• Significant provenance: in 1928 in the collection of portrait photographer Hugo Erfurth. • Part of an acclaimed private collection in Berlin for over 30 years . Hugo Erfurth Collection, Dresden/Cologne (from 1928). C. Huber Collection, no location specified (until 1940: Gutekunst & Klipstein). Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery, Valentin Gallery), Berlin/New York (acquired from the above in 1940). Mildred and Kenneth Parker, Janesville (acquired in 1964 at the latest). Jane Watrous Verlaine, Florida (probably acquired from the above). Heinz Berggruen, Paris/Berlin (acquired in 1992, Sotheby"s, New York). Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin. Private collection, Berlin (acquired in 1993).
Beaudin, Braque, Gris, Klee, Léger, Masson, Picasso. Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York, April 7-26, 1941, no. 24 Paintings by Paul Klee and Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder. Compiled by the Cincinnati Modern Art Society, Cincinnati Art Museum, April 7-May 3, 1942. Paul Klee Museum of Art, Baltimore, March 16-April 25, 1943 (checklist only, no catalog). Wisconsin Collects. Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, September 24-October 25, 1964, no. 129.
Paul Klee Foundation, Kunstmuseum Bern (ed.), Paul Klee Catalogue raisonné. 1883-1940, 9 vols., Bern 1998-2003, vol. 5, CR no. 4594 (illustrated in black and white). - Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, Kolorierte Schweizer Stiche. Aquarelle und Handzeichnungen. Neuzeitliche Schweizer Graphik. Moderne Graphik., December 5-7, 1940, lot 802 (illustrated). Will Grohmann, Paul Klee , Stuttgart 1954, pp. 275f. Sotheby"s, New York, November 11, 1992, lot 179A (illustrated in color). Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 31st auction, June 4, 1993, lot 33 (illustrated in color). Wolfgang Kersten and Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee Im Zeichen der Teilung, Stuttgart 1995 (illustrated on p. 356). Shelly Cordulack, Navigating Klee, in: Pantheon 56th year 1998, p. 145. Modern Times - Paul Klee in the 1920s. In: Ex. catalog Paul Klee Konstruktion des Geheimnisses, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, March 1-June 10, 2018, pp. 146-165, p. 149 note 9. Called up: December 5, 2025 - ca. 19.04 h +/- 20 min.
Paul Klee
Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
Westöstliche Bauten
1928.
Watercolor, laid on cardboard, top and bottom with a margin stripe colored in gouache.
Signed in the lower right. 37.5 x 26.8 cm (14.7 x 10.5 in).
The cardboard has been trimmed, resulting in the loss of the inscription.
Originally inscribed on the cardboard in the lower left: “1928.O.3” - in the lower right: “
Westöstliche Bauten
” (West-Eastern Buildings) - in the lower left: “III”.
• Aesthetic clarity and emotional depth.
• From the Dessau Bauhaus period.
• A prime example of
Paul Klee
"s analytical approach to design.
• One of the famous “fragmented pictures.”
