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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2021 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Works on Paper Sale | 461 | $****** - ****** | Kirke |
Works on Paper
watercolor on primed burlap laid down on card
(probably) Lily Klee, Bern (wife of the artist).
(probably) Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above, 1946).
Hermann and Margrit Rupf, Bern (probably acquired from the above, circa 1950).
Galerie Berggruen et Cie., Paris (by 1953).
Philippe Dotremont, Brussels (by 1954).
Philippe Leclerq, Hem (by 1960).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (by 1994).
Marc Blondeau, Paris.
David Tunkl Fine Art, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, May 1996.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Klee, February-March 1940, p. 16, no. 36.
Kunsthalle Bern, Paul Klee, November-December 1940, p. 11, no. 149.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbe-Museum, Collectie Philippe Dotremont, spring 1954, no. 42.
Musée d'Art Moderne de Villeneuve d'Ascq, Blast: Foyer et explosion—Surréalisme européen, expressionnisme abstrait américan, December 1989-March 1990, no. 2 (illustrated in color).
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Traum von Absoluten, June-September 1994, p. 64, no. 34 (illustrated in color, p. 30).
Hamm, Gustav-Lübke-Museum and Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Paul Klee: Reisen in den süden, January-July 1997, p. 238, no. 91 (illustrated in color, p. 205).
Munich, Haus der Kunst and Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van-Beuningen, Paul Klee: In der Maske des Mythos, January 1999-May 2000, p. 291, no. 88 (illustrated in color, p. 193).
C. Kroll, Die Bildtitel Paul Klees, Eine Studie zur Beziehung von Bild und Sprache in der Kunst des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Ph.D. Diss., Universität Bonn, 1968, p. 33.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1934-1938, Bonn, 2003, p. 441, no. 7465 (illustrated).
