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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 2022 | Schicksalstunde um dreiviertel zwölf | Christie's | New York | ||||
| Nov 1, 2011 | Schicksalstunde um dreiviertel zwölf | Christie's | New York | ||||
paintings
41 x 48.3 cm (16.13 x 19 in)
oil on chalk-primed muslin mounted on panel
signed, dated and numbered 'Klee 1922 184.' (upper left)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris.
Karl Nierendorf, New York (acquired from the above, by 1938).
Duncan and Marjorie Phillips, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above, circa 1939).
Reichenbach collection.
Berggruen et Cie, Paris (acquired from the above, 1955).
Private collection, Europe (acquired from the above, 1956, then by descent); sale, Christie's, New York, 1 November 2011, lot 5.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Stuttgart, Kunstgebäude am Schlossplatz, Neuer deutscher Kunst , May-August 1924, p. 14, no. 91.
Dresden, Graphisches Kabinett Hugo Erfurth and Kunstverein Erfurt, 7 Bauhausmeister , February-April 1925.
Kunsthalle Bern, Paul Klee , February-March 1935, p. 3, no. 13.
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Klee , October-November 1935, p. 3, no. 10.
Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Paul Klee, Fritz Huf , April-June 1936, no. 10.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1938 (on loan).
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Collection d'expression française , July-October 1962, p. 18, no. 112 (with incorrect support).
Strasbourg, Château des Rohan, La grande aventure de l'art du XXème siècle , June-September 1963, p. 43, no. 99 (with incorrect support).
H. Read, "Klee: Imagination and Phantasy" in XXe siècle , 1938, no. 4, p. 34 (illustrated).
K. Nierendorf, ed., Paul Klee, Paintings, Watercolors 1913 to 1939 , New York, 1941, p. 7 (illustrated, pl. 12).
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee , London, 1954, pp. 84, 192, 198 and 392, no. 66 (illustrated, p. 392).
R. Verdi, "Paul Klee's 'Fish Magic': An Interpretation" in The Burlington Magazine , March 1974, pp. 151 and 154, note 20.
M. Rosenthal, "Paul Klee's 'Tightropewalker': An Exercise in Balance" in Arts Magazine , September 1978, p. 111, no. 10.
M.L. Rosenthal, Paul Klee and the Arrow , Ph.D. diss., The University of Iowa, 1979, p. 140.
S.L. Henry, "Paul Klee's Pictorial Mechanics from Physics to the Picture Plane" in Pantheon , 1989, p. 154 (illustrated, fig. 22).
Vergleiche: Wintertag kurz vor Mittag , 1992, no. 2839.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1919-1922 , Bonn, 1999, vol. 3, p. 448, no. 3009 (illustrated; illustrated again in color, p. 408).
J. Helfenstein and E.H. Turner, ed., Klee and America , exh. cat., The Menil Collection, Houston, 2006, p. 229 (illustrated, fig. 54).
E. Smithgall, "A Little House of Klee at the Phillips: Paul Klee's Legacy on Washington Color-Field Artists" in Ten Americans: After Paul Klee, exh. cat., Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 2017, p. 17.
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Schicksalstunde um dreiviertel zwölf
signed, dated and numbered 'Klee 1922 184.' (upper left)
oil on chalk-primed muslin mounted on panel
16 1/8 x 19 in. (41 x 48.2 cm.)
Executed in 1922
