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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 18, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Works on Paper Sale | 1047 | $****** - ****** | Strassenskizze aus Kairuan |
Works on Paper
11.4 x 15.9 cm (4.5 x 6.25 in)
watercolor, pen and black ink on paper laid down on paper laid down on card
signed 'Klee' (upper left), dated, numbered and titled '1914. 209. Strassenskizze aus Kairuan' (on the artist's mount)
Galerie Neue Kunst (Hans Goltz), Munich (December 1920).
Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden (by 1921).
Sheldon Cheney, Westport.
E.V. Thaw & Co., New York.
Stephen Hahn Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, 1973).
Gallery Sanjyo Gion, Kyoto (by 1988).
Acquired by the present owner, circa 2001.
Dresden, Galerie Ernst Arnold, Graphisches Kabinett, Handzeichnungen Deutscher Meister, 1921, no. 512 (illustrated).
San Francisco Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; Detroit Institute of Arts; The City Art Museum of St. Louis; New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Washington, D.C., Phillips Gallery and The Cincinnati Art Museum, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by Paul Klee from the Klee Foundation, Berne, Switzerland with Additions from American Collections, March 1949-May 1950, p. 58, no. 127.
Mahwah, New Jersey, Ramapo College Art Gallery, The Private Collector, October-December 1981 (illustrated).
Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art; Morioka, Iwate Museum of Art; Tsu, Mie Prefectural Art Museum and Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Paul Klee and His Travels, February-October 2002, p. 242, no. 76 (illustrated in color, p. 71).
Saitama, The Museum of Modern Art, Travel and Art, Discovery, Wonder and Dreams, November 2015-January 2016, p. 170, no. 197 (illustrated in color).
R. Suter-Raeber, "Paul Klee, Der Durchbruch zur Farbe und zum abstrakten Bild," Paul Klee, Das Frühwerk, 1883-1922, exh. cat., Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1979, p. 133.
M. Benz-Zauner, Werkanalytische Untersuchungen zu den Tunesien-Aquarellen Paul Klees, Frankfurt, 1984, p. 8.
W. Kersten and O. Okuda, "Aufbewahren, Umarbeiten, Zerwirken, Tunesische Aquarelle, 1914-1923," Paul Klee, Im Zeichen der Teilung, exh. cat., Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1995, pp. 46-47.
S. Frey, "Dokumentation über Paul Klees Reisen ans Mittelmeer," Paul Klee, Reisen in den Süden, "Reisefieber praecisiert," exh. cat., Gustav-Lübcke Museum, Hamm, 1997, p. 246.
O. Okuda, "Paul Klee, Buchhaltung, Werkbezeichnung und Werkprozess," Radical Art History, Internationale Anthologie, Zurich, 1997, p. 378, note 13.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, 1913-1918, Bonn, 2000, vol. 2, p. 209, no. 1312 (illustrated).
C. Otterbeck, Europa verlassen, Künstlerreisen am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, Ph.D. Diss., Philipps-Universität, 2004, pp. 400-401, note 53.
M. Baumgartner, "Paul Klees Reise nach Tunesien," The Journey to Tunisia 1914, Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moilliet, exh. cat., Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 2014, p. 118 (illustrated).
signed 'Klee' (upper left); dated, numbered and titled '1914. 209. Strassenskizze aus Kairuan' (on the artist's mount)
watercolor, pen and black ink on paper laid down on paper laid down on card
Sheet size: 4 ½ x 6 ¼ in. (11.4 x 15.9 cm.)
Mount size: 8 7/8 x 10 3/8 in. (22.6 x 26.6 cm.)
Executed in 1914
