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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18, 2024 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper Sale | 564 | $****** - ****** | Stadt der Kirchen |
Works on Paper
31.1 x 22.5 cm (12.25 x 8.88 in)
watercolor and pen and India ink over pencil on paper laid down on card
signed "Klee" (upper left); dated, titled and numbered "1918.99 Stadt der Kirchen" (on the artist"s mount)
Galerie Goltz, Munich (acquired from the artist, February 1920).
Private collection.
James Gilvarry, New York (by 1955); Estate sale, Christie"s, New York, 14 November 1984, lot 407.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Zurich, Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Zweite Herbstausstellung, September-October 1919, no. 98.
Wellesley College, Farnsworth Museum, 1955.
Baltimore Museum of Art and Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Paul Klee: Private Collection James Gilvarry , June-October 1960.
Champaign, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Paul Klee from the James Gilvarry Collection, September-October 1964, no. 8 (illustrated).
Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, Paul Klee, January 1966, no. 6.
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Paul Klee: A Retrospective Exhibition, February-April 1967, p. 38, no. 31 (illustrated).
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Klee, June-August 1967, no. 34.
Santa Barbara, University of California, The Art Gallery, Paul Klee: Oils, Watercolors, Gouaches, Drawings and Prints from the James Gilvarry Collection, October-November 1967, p. 25, no. 8 (illustrated in color, p. 29).
"Investing in Art-The Latest Boom" in U.S. News & World Report, January 1964, p. 69 (illustrated).
S.L. Henry, "Paul Klee"s Pictorial Mechanics from Physics to the Picture Plane" in International Annual Art Journal , 1989, vol. 47, p. 154.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1913-1918, Bern, 2000, vol. 2, p. 491, no. 1946 (illustrated).
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Stadt der Kirchen
signed "Klee" (upper left); dated, titled and numbered "1918.99 Stadt der Kirchen" (on the artist"s mount)
watercolor and pen and India ink over pencil on paper laid down on card
Sheet size: 8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. (15.5 x 20.7 cm.)
Mount size: 12 ¼ x 8 7/8 in. (31.2 x 22.5 cm.)
Executed in 1918
