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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2018 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper | 233 | $****** - ****** | Trauerblumen (Mourning Flowers) |
Works on Paper
23.2 x 14.6 cm (9.13 x 5.75 in)
watercolour and pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount
signed 'Klee' (upper left), dated, numbered and inscribed '1917 132 Trauerblumen' (on the artist's mount)
Galerie Neue Kunst - Hans Goltz, Munich, by whom acquired directly from the artist in summer 1918.
Karl Julius Anselmino, Wuppertal, by whom acquired before 1956.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Paul Klee, Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, Gabriele Münter, December 1917, no. 26
Munich, Galeriestrasse 26, Neue Münchner Secession, IV. Ausstellung, June - October 1918, no. 86, p. 20.
Wuppertal, Kunst- und Museumsverein, Paul Klee 1879-1940: Werke aus Jahren 1904 bis 1940, January - February 1956, no. 11, p. 3.
Bern, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee: Ausstellung in Verbindung mit der Paul-Klee-Stiftung, August - November 1956, no. 408, p. 68.
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, December 1956 - January 1957, no. 74, p. 15.
Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, 2. Internationale der Zeichnung, July - September 1967, no. 23, p. 293 (illustrated).
Cologne, Kunsthalle, Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, May - August 1968, no. G3 (illustrated pl. 1).
Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Paul Klee: Das Frühwerk 1883-1922, December 1979 - March 1980, no. 329 (illustrated).
Saarbrücken, Saarland Museum, Paul Klee: Wachstum regt sich, Klees Zwiesprache mit der Natur, March - May 1990, no. 32 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Karlsruhe, Prinz-Max-Palais, June - August 1990.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan Vital oder Das Auge des Eros, May - August 1994, no. 295, p. 557 (illustrated pl. 99).
On loan to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, by 1979 and until at least 1994 (inv. no. L.1664).
Letter from Paul Klee to Lily Klee, 3 July 1918, in F. Klee, Briefe an die Familie 1893-1940, vol. II, 1907-1940, Cologne, 1979, p. 924-925.
M. Huggler, 'Paul Klee', in Künstler Lexikon der Schweiz: XX. Jahrhundert, vol. I, Frauenfeld, 1958-1961 p. 524.
M. Huggler, Paul Klee: Die Malerei als Blick in den Kosmos, Frauenfeld, 1969, pp. 49-50 & 123.
C. Geelhaar, Paul Klee: Leben und Werk, Cologne, 1974, no. 38, p. 37 (illustrated pl. 38).
R. Verdi, Klee and Nature, London, 1984, pp. 135-136 & 147 (illustrated fig. 122, p. 134).
P. Comte, Klee, Paris, 1989, no. 97, p. 74 (illustrated pl. 97).
M. Franciscono, Paul Klee: His Work and Thought, Chicago & London, 1991, p. 210.
E.-G. Güse, ed., Paul Klee: Dialogue with Nature, Munich, 1991, pp. 62 & 160 (illustrated p. 63).
D. Zbikowsky, 'Zeichen und Erinnerung - Zur Bedeutung der altägyptischen Schriftkultur im Werk Paul Klees', in exh. cat., Paul Klee: Reisen in den Süden, Reisefieber praecisiert, Ostfildern, 1997, p. 89.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1913-1918, Bern, 2000, no. 1816, p. 424 (illustrated).
signed 'Klee' (upper left); dated, numbered and inscribed '1917 132 Trauerblumen' (on the artist's mount)
watercolour and pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount
image: 9 1/8 x 5 3/4 in. (23.2 x 14.7 cm.)
artist's mount: 10 1/4 x 7 in. (26 x 18 cm.)
Executed in 1917
