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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 6, 2020 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 2 | $****** - ****** | Der Ballon im Fenster | |||
Mar 28, 1992 | Finarte Casa d'Aste | Chiasso | Modern & Contemporary Art | 91 | Estimates not disclosed | Der Ballon im Fenster |
Works on Paper
32.4 x 24.1 cm (12.75 x 9.5 in)
watercolour on paper, laid down on the artist's mount
signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, numbered and inscribed 'IV 1929. C.7. der Ballon im Fenster' (on the artist's mount)
Lily Klee, Bern, by descent from the artist in 1940, until 1946.
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, by 1946, until 1947.
Douglas Cooper, London & Argilliers, until 1955.
Galerie Berggruen, Paris, by 1955.
Hanover Gallery, London.
Sir Edward & Lady Nika Hulton, London, by whom acquired from the above in 1956.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (no. 7896), by whom acquired from the above, circa 1973.
Private collection, Italy, by whom acquired from the above on 9 September 1981.
Anonymous sale, Finarte, Lugano, 28 March 1992, lot 91.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
London, Hanover Gallery, The Hanover Gallery Presents Paul Klee: 1879-1940, June - July 1956, no. 21, n.p. (illustrated).
Wuppertal, Kunst- und Museumsverein, Sammlung Sir Edward und Lady Hulton, London, 1964, no. 89; this exhibition later travelled to Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 1964; Frankfurt, Kunstverein, 1965; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1965; and Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, July 1965.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung Sir Edward und Lady Hulton, London, December 1967 - January 1968, no. 91.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Klee, 'Kunst ist ein Schöpfungsgleichnis', September - November 1973, no. 47, n.p. (illustrated; with inverted dimensions).
Paris, Galerie Karl Flinker, Klee, 74 oeuvres de 1908 à 1940, March - May 1974, no. 38, n.p. (with inverted dimensions).
London, Fischer Fine Art, Paul Klee: 1879-1940, September - October 1975, no. 13, n.p. (illustrated; with inverted dimensions).
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Klee: Óleos, acuarelas, dibujos y grabados, March - May 1981, no. 52, n.p. (illustrated; with inverted dimensions).
M. Brion, Klee, Paris, 1955, no. 38, n.p. (illustrated).
M.L. Rosenthal, Paul Klee and the Arrow, Ph.D. thesis, Iowa, July 1979, pp. 106-107 (illustrated fig. 86, p. 289).
S.L. Henry, 'Paul Klee’s Pictorial Mechanics from Physics to the Picture Plane', in Pantheon, no. 47, Munich, 1989, p. 165.
J. Anger, Modernism and the Gendering of Paul Klee, Ph.D. thesis, Providence, May 1997, note 72, n.p..
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, no. 4883, p. 334 (illustrated).
signed 'Klee' (lower right), dated, numbered and inscribed 'IV 1929. C.7. der Ballon im Fenster' (on the artist's mount)
