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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 6, 2015 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 423 | $****** - ****** | Irgend eine Grausamkeit (Any kind of Cruelty) |
paintings
28 x 22.3 cm (11.02 x 8.78 in)
oil on paper mounted on canvas
Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich (acquired directly from the artist by 1920). Hans Koch, Dusseldorf (acquired circa 1921). Thence by descent and sold: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinet, Stuttgart, May 19, 1954, lot 1230. Berggruen & Cie, Paris (acquired at the above sale and sold: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinet, Stuttgart, November 30, 1955, lot 1384) . Max Fischer, Stuttgart (acquired at the above sale). Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Stuttgart (acquired from the above in 1963).
Private Collection, Germany (acquired before 1966). Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired in 1966).
Private Collection, Italy (acquired from the above in 1966). Agenzia d'arte moderna Paolo Sprovieri, Rome (acquired by circa 1975). Galeria Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf (acquired circa 1975).
Private Collection, Germany (acquired circa 1975 and until 2007). Galerie Ulrike Schmela, Berlin.
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above)
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger: Gemälde, Graphik, XXIX, Sonder-Ausstellung, 1919-20, no. 6. Dusseldorf, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, In Memorium Lehmbruck, Paul Klee, Walter Tanck, 1920, no. 20. Paris, Berggruen & Cie, L'Univers de Klee, 1955. Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Das Universum, 2008-09, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Marcel Brion, Paul Klee, Paris, 1955, illustrated p. 14. Lagerkatalog 29 (exhibition catalogue), Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Stuttgart, 1963, illustrated pl. 5. Lagerkatalog 30 (exhibition catalogue), Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Stuttgart, 1964, illustrated pl. 5. Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, 1919 - 1922, vol. III, Bern, 1999, no. 2164, illustrated p. 93
