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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper | 189 | $****** - ****** | Wer Töten Wen | |||
Nov 12, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Work on Paper | 146 | $****** - ****** | Wer Töten Wen |
paintings
28.6 x 47 cm (11.25 x 18.5 in)
tempera and watercolor on paper laid down on card
signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, titled, numbered and inscribed '1931. L.7. wer töten wen S Cl' (on the artist's mount)
Lily Klee, Bern (wife of the artist).
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above, 1946).
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (1948).
Charlotte Picher Purcell, Chicago (acquired from the above, 1950).
Main Street Gallery, Chicago.
Saidenberg Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired from the above).
Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, 1973).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1985.
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Klee, October-November 1935, p. 9, no. 115.
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Paul Klee, Fritz Huf, April-June 1936, p. 6, no. 91.
Lucerne, Galerie Rosengart; Antwerp, Galerij Artes and Liège, Association pour le progrès intellectuel et artistique de la Wallonie, Paul Klee, June 1948-April 1949, no. 22.
The Arts Club of Chicago, Paul Klee: Works from Chicago Collections, January-February 1962, no. 41.
Des Moines Art Center, Paul Klee: Paintings and Watercolors from The Bauhaus Years, 1921-1931, September-October 1973, no. 58 (illustrated).
New York, Serge Sabarsky Gallery, Paul Klee: The Late Years, 1930-1940, fall 1977, pp. 25 and 42 (illustrated in color, pl. 9).
Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee and Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Paul Klee: Sonderklasse Unverkäuflich, October 2014-May 2015, no. 252 (illustrated in color, pp. 121 and 433).
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee und die Tradition, December 1931, p. 4 (illustrated).
C. Rümelin, "Klees Umgang mit seinem eigenen Oeuvre," Paul Klee: Selected by Genius, 1917-1933, exh. cat, Stadthalle Balingen, 2001, p. 218, footnote 57.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1931-1933, Bonn, 2002, vol. 6, p. 56, no. 5452 (illustrated).
signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, titled, numbered and inscribed '1931. L.7. wer töten wen S Cl' (on the artist's mount)
tempera and watercolor on paper laid down on card
Image size: 11 ¼ x 18 ½ in. (28.6 x 47 cm.)
Mount size: 18 ¾ x 24 ½ in. (47.5 x 62.2 cm.)
Painted in 1931
