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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 28, 2022 | Christie's | London | 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale | 79 | $****** - ****** | Blumensteg |
paintings
59 x 41.3 cm (23.25 x 16.25 in)
oil on board
signed, dated and numbered ‘Klee 1913. 124.' (lower left)
Galerie Neue Kunst [Hans Goltz], Munich, by 1918.
Alfred Flechtheim, Dusseldorf, Berlin, Paris & London, by 1920.
Wilhelm Uhde, Paris.
Annemarie Weinschenk, Wiesbaden; sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 10-12 May 1950, lot 1486.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (no. 3057), by whom acquired at the above sale.
Sarah Reed Blodgett, Portland, Oregon, by 1957, and thence by descent.
Munich, Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, Paul Klee, March 1914, no. 5, n.p.; this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, April 1914.
Berlin, Galerie der Sturm, Albert Bloch, Paul Klee, March 1916, no. 53, n.p..
Munich, Neue Münchner Secession, June - October 1918, no. 70, p. 20.
Dusseldorf, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Auf dem Wege zur Kunst unserer Zeit: Vorkriegsbilder und Bildwerke, July - August 1919, no. 72, p. 34.
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, 29 Sonderausstellung , November 1919 - January 1920, no. 11, n.p..
Dusseldorf, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, In Memoriam Lehmbruck, Paul Klee , Walter Tanck , March - April 1920, no. 25, p. 14.
Dusseldorf , Städtischer Kunstpalast , Grosse Kunstausstellung, May - October 1920, no. 659, p. 51.
Berlin, Galerie Flechtheim, Deutsche und französische Kunst aus des XX. Jahrhunderts Beginn , October 1921, no. 48, n.p..
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Climax 1913, January - February 1951, no. 18.
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Lehmbruck and His Contemporaries , September - October 1951, no. 24, n.p. (titled 'Flower Path').
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, French Masters, January - February 1953, no. 8.
Portland, Portland Art Museum, The Collection of Sarah Reed Blodgett of Portland: European and American Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings, and Prints , September - October 1965, no. 34, n.p..
New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, German & Austrian Expressionism, November 1975 - January 1976, no. 37, pp. 30 & 57 (illustrated p. 57; titled 'Flower Path').
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee , Paris, 1929, no. 3, n.p. (illustrated p. 2).
K. Scheffler, 'Paul Klee: Ausstellung in der Galerie Alfred Flechtheim', in Kunst und Künstler , vol. XXVIII, Berlin, December 1930, pp. n.p. & 112 (illustrated p. 112; dated '1929').
C. Zervos, 'Paul Klee: 1879-1940', in Cahiers d'Art, 1945-1946 , Paris, 1946, p. 17 (illustrated; titled 'sentier fleuri').
P. Selz, German Expressionist Painting , Berkeley, 1957, no. 108, p. 271 (illustrated n.p.; titled 'Flower Path').
S. Frey & W. Kersten, 'Paul Klees geschäftliche Verbindung zur Galerie Alfred Flechtheim', in Alfred Flechtheim: Sammler, Kunsthändler, Verleger, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, 1987, pp. 65 & 67.
J. Anger, Modernism and the Gendering of Paul Klee , Ann Arbor, 1997, p. 104 (titled 'Flower Path').
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné , vol. II, 1913-1918, Bern, 2000, no. 1026, p. 90 (illustrated).
J. Anger, Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art , Cambridge, 2004, pp. 106, 209, 214, 219, 225 & 305.
S. Kaufmann, Paul Klee als Druckgraphiker, Zwischen Invention und Reproduktion , Berlin, 2015, p. 86 (illustrated fig. 77, p. 88).
A. Bourneuf, Paul Klee, The Visible and the Legible , Chicago, 2015, p. 35.
H.-P. Wittwer, 'Biografien', in Paul Klee und die Surrealisten , exh. cat., Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 2016, p. 378.
O. Dascher, 'Es ist was Wahnsinniges mit der Kunst ', in Alfred Flechtheim, Sammler, Kunsthändler, Verleger, Zurich, 2011, p. 440.
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Blumensteg
signed, dated and numbered ‘Klee 1913. 124.' (lower left)
oil on board
23 1⁄4 x 16 1⁄4 in. (59 x 41 cm.)
Painted in 1913
