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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 29, 2022 | Sotheby's | London | Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction | 134 | $****** - ****** | Milderung (Softening) |
paintings
60 x 38.5 cm (23.62 x 15.16 in)
watercolour on primted burlap
signed Klee (lower centre)
Lily Klee, Bern (inherited from the artist in 1940)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946)
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired from the above in 1947)
Clifford Odets, New York & Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1947)
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York
George David Thompson, Pittsburgh
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in 1960)
Galleria Foscherari, Bologna (acquired from the above in 1971)
Private Collection, Italy
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Private Collection (acquired by 1985)
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Paul Klee , 1948, no. 22 (with incorrect medium)
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich; Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf; The Hague, Gemeentemuseum; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, One Hundred Paintings from the G. David Thompson Collection , 1960-61, no. 99 (New York & Düsseldorf), no. 68 (Turin), illustrated in the catalogue (with incorrect medium)
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Klee , 1963, no. 60, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (with incorrect medium and dimensions)
Paris, Galerie Tarica, Paul Klee , 1963
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Klee, Spätwerke , 1965, no. 20, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (with incorrect medium and dimensions)
Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Klee, 1879-1940, Gesamtausstellung , 1967, no. 177, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (with incorrect dimensions)
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Paul Klee,1879-1940 , 1970-71, no. 230 (with incorrect dimensions)
Bologna, Galleria De'Foscherari & Milan, Galleria Eunomia, Paul Klee , 1971-72, n.n., illustrated in colour in the catalogue (with incorrect dimensions)
Munich, Galerie Thomas, Expressionismus, Klassische Moderne bei Thomas , 1985, no. 32, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (with incorrect medium and dimensions)
Munich, Galerie Thomas, Meisterwerke II , 1999-2000, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (with incorrect dimensions)
Münster, LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Freiheit der Linie - Von Obrist und dem Jugendstil zu Marc, Klee und Kirchner , 2007-08, no. 169, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (with incorrect dimensions)
Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, Das Geistige in der Kunst, Vom Blauen Reiter zum Abstrakten Expressionismus , 2010-11, n.n., illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Kochel am See, Franz Marc Museum, Willi Baumeister - Paul Klee, Struktur und Vision , 2015-16, n.n.
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paul Klee, L'ironie à l'œuvre , 2016, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Paul Klee, Die Abstrakte Dimension , 2017-18, no. 184, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Anonymous, 'Paul Klee and Sculptors', in The New Yorker , 1st May 1948
Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy (ed.), Franz Marc Museum, Werke , Cologne, 2008, illustrated in colour p. 239
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, 1934-1938 , Bern, 2003, vol. VII, no. 7403, illustrated p. 421
Property from an Important European Collection
Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
Milderung (Softening)
signed Klee (lower centre)
watercolour on primed burlap
60 by 38.5cm., 23⅝ by 15⅛in.
Painted in 1938.
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重要歐洲收藏
保羅・克利
1879 - 1940年
《軟化》
款識:藝術家簽名 Klee（中下）
水彩及經打底粗麻布
60 x 38.5 公分；23 ⅝ x 15 ⅛ 英寸
1938年作
