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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2023 | Die Hoffnungslosen (The Hopeless Ones) | 58 | Sotheby's | London | |||
Works on Paper
11 x 21.4 cm (4.33 x 8.43 in)
watercolour and pen and ink on paper bordered with strips of silver paper
signed Klee (upper left); titled, dated 1914 and numbered 58. (on the artist's mount)
Israel Ber Neumann (Graphisches Kabinett, New Art Circle, Neumann Gallery), New York
Willard Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1939)
Private Collection, New York
Thence by descent to the present owner
Munich, Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Paul Klee , 1920, no. 65
New York, Neumann-Willard Gallery, Paul Klee , 1939, no. 3
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin) & Willard Gallery (Marian Willard), Paul Klee , 1940, no. 3
Northampton, Smith College; Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago; Portland, The Portland Art Museum; San Francisco, The San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles, The Stendahl Galleries; St. Louis, City Art Museum; Wellesley, Wellesley College & New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paul Klee. Memorial Exhibition , 1941, no. 4
Houston , Contemporary Arts Museum, The Magical Worlds of Redon Klee Baziotes , 1957, n.n
Denver, Denver Art Museum, Paul Klee in Review , 1963
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1914: An exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture created in 1914; In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Baltimore Museum of Art , 1964, no. 106, illustrated in the catalogue
California, UCLA Art Galleries; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art & Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Years of ferment; The Birth of Twentieth Century Art 1886-1914 , 1965, no. 101
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Paul Klee 1879-1940. A Retrospective Exhibition , 1967, no. 16, illustrated in the catalogue
Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Klee 1879-1940 , 1967, no. 20, pl. 6, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Paul Klee: Irony at work , 2016, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Will Grohmann, Paul Klee , London, 1954, no. 87, illustrated p. 135
Gert Schiff, 'Paul Klee at the Guggenheim' in Artforum , March 1967, illustrated p. 50
John Russell, The Meanings of Modern Art , New York, 1981, illustrated p. 250
Mark Roskill, Klee, Kandinsky, and the Thought of Their Time. A Critical Perspective , Chicago, 1992, no. 15, illustrated n.p.
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, 1934-1938 , Bern, 2000, vol. II, no. 1167, illustrated p. 162
Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
Die Hoffnungslosen (The Hopeless Ones)
signed Klee (upper left); titled, dated 1914 and numbered 58. (on the artist's mount)
watercolour and pen and ink on paper bordered with strips of silver paper tape laid down on the artist's mount
Image: 11 by 21.4cm., 4⅜ by 8⅜in.
Mount: 24 by 32.5cm., 9½ by 12¾in. Framed: 34.2 by 41cm., 13½ by 16⅛in.
Executed in 1914.
