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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 19, 2020 | Lempertz | Cologne | Modern and Contemporary Art -Evening Sale | 81 | $****** - ****** | Ghosts as Acrobats, 1918, 37 |
Works on Paper
31.8 x 18.7 cm (12.52 x 7.36 in)
Pen and ink and watercolour on paper, a strip of gold paper attached to top and bottom, laid down on card
Signed 'Klee' (vey faded) lower right within the depiction. Dated, inscribed with the work number and titled '1918 37 Geister als Akrobaten' (faded) on the card lower left with border line. - A few minor foxmarks
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Deutscher Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts e.V., Neuss (acquisition Sept. 1919); Johannes Geller, Neuss (since 1919); Lempertz Cologne, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Auktion 480, 3 December 1964, Lot 340; Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia/USA; in family possession, Hesse, since
Johannes Geller, index of the collection of the lawyer Johannes Geller in Neuss, n. p. [printed in Munich], 1943, no. 26; Peg DeLamater, Klee and India: Krishna Themes in the Art of Paul Klee, Diss. University of Texas, Austin 1991, p. 217; Christian Rümelin, Klee's handling of his own oeuvre, in: Paul Klee, Years of Mastery 1917-1933, exhib. cat. Stadthalle Balingen 2001, p. 21-37 and 215-222, p. 219 annot. 69; Max Tauch, The Society for the Promotion of German 20th Century Art and Paul Klee, in: Paul Klee in the Rhineland. Drawings, watercolours, gouaches, exhib. cat. Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn 2003, p. 45-52, p. 50-52; Michael Baumgartner, "a very special spectacle, the crowd and the incredible boldness on the high wire". Paul Klee's fascination with the circus and acrobats, in: Paul Klee. Theater everywhere, exhib. cat. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern 2007, p. 227-233, p. 229
Paul Klee
Geister als Akrobaten, 1918, 37
1918
Pen and ink and watercolour on paper, a strip of gold paper attached to top and bottom, laid down on card (31.8 x 18.7 cm) 25.2 x 11.9/12.4 cm Framed under glass. Signed 'Klee' (vey faded) lower right within the depiction. Dated, inscribed with the work number and titled '1918 37 Geister als Akrobaten' (faded) on the card lower left with border line. - A few minor foxmarks. The card slightly browned with light-stain.
