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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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May 16, 2017 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 36A | $****** - ****** | Gesetz (Law) |
Works on Paper
48.6 x 32.7 cm (19.13 x 12.88 in)
gouache on newsprint laid down by the artist on thin card
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris.
Lily Klee, Bern (1940-1946).
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-1947).
Richard Doetsch-Benziger, Basel (1947 and until at least 1958).
David Stössel, Zürich (until 1960).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (by 1960).
Professor Karl Julius Anselmino, Wuppertal (1960).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Klee, February-March 1940, p. 40, no. 35.
Kunsthalle Basel, Gedächtnis ausstellung Paul Klee, February-March 1941, p. 26, no. 251.
Basel, Galerie d'Art Moderne, Paul Klee: Tafelbilder und Aquarelle aus Privatbesitz, September-October 1949, no. 45.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Sammlung Richard Doetsch-Benziger: Malerei, Zeichnung und Plastik des 19 und 20 jahrhunderts, June-July 1956, p. 57, no. 201 (illustrated).
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., Paul Klee, June-July 1966, p. 64, no. 52 (illustrated).
Kunsthalle Cologne, Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, May-August 1968, no. G 30.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Paul Klee, October 1970-January 1971, p. 47, no. 214.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan Vital oder das Auge des Eros, May-August 1994, p. 561, no. 396 (illustrated in color).
Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Der expressionistische Impuls: Meisterwerke aus Wuppertals grossen Privatsammlungen, February-May 2008, p. 329 (illustrated in color).
Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, 1975-2015 (on extended loan).
M. Bosshard-Rebmann, Paul Klee: Sammlung Richard Doetsch-Benziger, Basel, 1953, no. 54.
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Stuttgart, 1954, p. 325.
J. Spiller, ed., Paul Klee Das bildnerische Denken, Basel, 1956, vol. I, p. 517.
F. Klee, Paul Klee, Leben und Werk in Dokumenten, ausgewählt aus den nachgelassenen Aufzeichnungen und den unveröffentlichten Breifen, Zurich, 1960 (illustrated).
U. Bischoff, Paul Klee, Munich, 1992, p. 174, no. 82 (illustrated in color, p. 152).
P. Klee, Wachstum der Nachtpflanzen, Vogelgarten, Munich, 1992, p. 63 (illustrated in color).
C. Klingso¨hr-Leroy, Paul Klee: Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Bonn, 1994, p. 69, no. 22 (illustrated in color, p. 61).
M.F. Popia, "L'estetica musicale di Paul Klee," Ph.D. diss., Università degli Studi di Genova, 2000, p. 293 (illustrated in color).
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné 1934-1938, Bern, 2003, vol. 7, p. 341, no. 7239 (illustrated).
