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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 21, 2018 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper | 125 | $****** - ****** | Birnen-Destillation (Distillation of Pears) |
Works on Paper
22 x 31.4 cm (8.66 x 12.36 in)
watercolour and oil transfer drawing on paper laid down on the artist's painted mount
signed 'Klee' (lower left), dated, numbered and inscribed '1921/10 Birnen-Destillation' (on the artist's mount)
Galerie Neue Kunst - Hans Goltz, Munich, by whom acquired directly from the artist in December 1921.
Anonymous sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, 7-9 November 1951, lot 1624.
Karl Julius Anselmino, Wuppertal, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 44. Ausstellung: Aquarelle moderner Künstler, August - September 1921, no. 87.
Wuppertal, Kunst- und Museumsverein, Paul Klee 1879-1940: Werke aus den Jahren 1904 bis 1940, January - February 1956, no. 21, p. 4.
Bern, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee: Ausstellung in Verbindung mit der Paul Klee-Stiftung, August - November 1956, no. 445, p. 73.
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, December 1956 - January 1957, no. 108, p. 18.
Cologne, Kunsthalle, Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, May - August 1968, no. G 10 (illustrated pl. 3).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan Vital oder das Auge des Eros, May - August 1994, no. 317, p. 558 (illustrated pl. 98).
London, Hayward Gallery, Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation, Works 1914-1940, January - April 2001, no. 19, p. 195 (illustrated p. 63).
Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Der Exepressionistische Impuls: Meisterwerke aus Wuppertals grossen Privatsammlungen, February - May 2008, p. 143 (illustrated p. 311).
On loan to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, by 1979 and until at least 2008 (loan no. L.1662).
C. Geelhaar, Paul Klee and the Bauhaus, Bath, 1973, p. 66 (illustrated pl. 34).
J. Glaesemer, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen, vol. II, 1921-1936, Bern, 1984, p. 13 (illustrated).
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, 1919-1922, Bern, 1999, no. 2601, p. 262 (illustrated pp. 262 & 278).
signed 'Klee' (lower left); dated, numbered and inscribed '1921/10 Birnen-Destillation' (on the artist's mount)
watercolour and oil transfer drawing on paper laid down on the artist's painted mount
image: 8 5/8 x 12 3/8 in. (22 x 31.4 cm.)
artist's mount: 12 1/2 x 17 7/8 in. (31.7 x 45.2 cm.)
Executed in 1921
