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Landschaft mit dem Galgen (Landscape with Gallows) by Paul Klee

Paul Klee

Landschaft mit dem Galgen (Landscape with Gallows), 1919

Oil and pen and ink on primed grounded gauze on board
36.8 x 46 cm (14.5 x 18.13 in)
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (14 Nov 2022)
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Nov 14, 2022
Sotheby'sNew YorkThe David M. Solinger Collection Evening Auction17
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Landschaft mit dem Galgen (Landscape with Gallows)
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

36.8 x 46 cm (14.5 x 18.13 in)

Materials

oil and pen and ink on primed grounded gauze on board

Signature

signed Klee , dated 1919 and numbered 115 (lower left)

Provenance

Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich (on commission from the artist circa 1919-20)

Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Berlin (acquired by 1932)

Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Cologne (acquired by 1946 and until at least 1950)

New Art Circle, J.B. Neumann, New York (acquired by 1952)

Acquired from the above in 1952 by the present owner

Exhibited

Copenhagen, Den Frie Udstilling, Nyere tysk kunst. Maleri og skulptur , 1932, no. 96

Munich, Haus der Kunst and Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum, Die Maler am Bauhaus, 1950, no. 127

New York, J. B. Neumann and New Art Circle, Paul Klee, 1952, no. 5, n.p., illustrated (titled Landscape with Signs )

New York, Perls Galleries, The Educated Eye: Paintings and Sculpture from Collections of Dalton School Families for the Benefit of The Dalton School and its Scholarship Program , 1964, no. 19, illustrated

Ithaca, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, The David M. Solinger Collection: Masterworks of Twentieth-Century Art, 2002-03, p. 89, illustrated in color

Literature

Jürg Spiller, ed., Paul Klee: Das Bildnerische Denken, Form-une Gestaltungs-Jehre , Basel and Stuttgart, 1956, p. 77, illustrated

Jürg Spiller, ed., Paul Klee: Notebooks, The Thinking Eye , vol. I, New York, 1973, p. 77, illustrated (titled Landscape with gallows and listed as oil on cardboard)

Max Huggler, Paul Klee: Die Malerei als Blick in den Kosmos , Frauenfeld and Stuttgart, 1969, p. 53

Annegret Janda, “Paul Klee und Nationalgalerie, 1919-1937 , ” Paul Klee. Vortrage der wissenschaftlichen Konferenz in Dresden, 19. und 90. Dezember 1984, Dresden, 1986, p. 49 (titled Traumlandschaft mit Galgen and dated 1921)

Josef Helfenstein and Christian Rümelin, Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné , vol. III, London and New York, 1999, no. 2178, p. 98, illustrated

Kathryn Porter Aichele, Paul Klee, Poet/Painter , Rochester, 2006, fig. 25, pp. 96-100, 112, 159, 170, illustrated

Maike Steinkamp and Ute Haug, eds., Werke und Werte. Über das Handeln und Sammeln von Kunst im Nationalsozialismus , Berlin 2010, p. 72

Annie Bourneuf, Paul Klee: The Visible and the Legible, Chicago, 2015, n.p., illustrated in color

Anna Casellato. Rilke in München: der Weg zur Abstraktion , Ph.D. dissertation Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia Università di Trento, 2021, p. 62

Description

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

Landschaft mit dem Galgen (Landscape with Gallows)

signed Klee , dated 1919 and numbered 115 (lower left)

oil and pen and ink on primed grounded gauze on board

14 ½ by 18 ⅛ in. 36.3 by 46 cm.

Executed in 1919.