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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 | 77 | $****** - ****** | Kairuan (Kairuan mit den Kamelen und dem Esel) |
Works on Paper
14.8 x 24 cm (5.83 x 9.45 in)
Watercolor over pencil, originally laid on backing board, On laid paper, originally laid on backing board, the full sheet
Signed in the lower left. Dated on the original backing board in the lower left, titled “Kairuan” and inscribed with the work number “21.”
• Significant provenance: Dr. Hans Koch Collection, Düsseldorf. • Museum quality: exhibited several times in the 1920s and 1930s. • Part of an important private collection in Berlin for over 40 years . Hans Goltz, Munich (1921). Collection of Dr. Hans Koch, Düsseldorf (from 1930 at the latest, until 1952). Private collection, Baden-Württemberg (1952, inherited from the above, until 1956). Galerie Grosshennig, Düsseldorf (acquired from the above in 1956: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett). Private collection, Baden-Württemberg (until 1984). Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1984: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer).
Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (with an old label on the reverse). Paul Klee , Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, February 15-March 10, 1930, cat. no. 45. Paul Klee Aquarelle aus 25 Jahren, 1905 bis 1930, Staatliches Museum, Saarbrücken, March 23-April 22, 1930, cat. no. 65. Paul Klee , Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, June 14-July 6, 1931, cat. no. 107. Paul Klee , August Macke, Galerie Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf, October 1-31, 1952, cat. no. 9.
Paul Klee Foundation, Kunstmuseum Bern (ed.), Paul Klee Catalogue raisonné. 1883-1940, 9 vols., Bern 1998-2003, vol. 2, CR no. 1618 ( illustrated in black and white). - - Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 24th auction, May 29/30, 1956, lot 599 (illustrated in color). Uta Gerlach-Laxner, Paul Klee und der Orient. Die Auswirkung auf sein Werk unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Tunesienreise 1914, in: Die Tunisreise. Klee, Macke, Moilliet, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, December 12, 1982-February 13, 1983; Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, March 9-April 24, 1983, p. 63. Margareta Benz-Zauner, Werkanalytische Untersuchungen zu den Tunesien-Aquarellen Paul Klee s, Frankfurt a.M. 1984, p. 181. Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 87th auction, November 26-27, 1984, lot 800. Wolfgang Kersten, Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee Im Zeichen der Teilung, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 52 (illustrated on p. 52). “That is the meaning of this happy hour: color and I are one. I am a painter.” From Paul Klee "s journal, April 16, 1914 Called up: December 5, 2025 - ca. 19.32 h +/- 20 min.
Paul Klee
Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
Kairuan (Kairuan mit den Kamelen und dem Esel)
1916.
Watercolor over pencil, originally laid on backing board.
Signed in the lower left. Dated on the original backing board in the lower left, titled “Kairuan” and inscribed with the work number “21.”. On laid paper, originally laid on backing board . 14.8 x 24 cm (5.8 x 9.4 in), the full sheet.
On his famous trip to Tunisia with August Macke and Morelet in the spring of 1914,
Paul Klee
experienced a pivotal moment in his artistic development.
• Kairouan - an important place of inspiration for
Paul Klee
"s later work.
• A subtly balanced watercolor created in 1916 based on a sketch made during this trip to Tunisia (Kunstmuseum Bern).
