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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Day Auction | 182 | $****** - ****** | Good | Ein Dorf als Reliefspiel (A Village in Playful Relief) |
Works on Paper
32.7 x 39.4 cm (12.88 x 15.5 in)
watercolor and Spritztechnik on paper mounted on card
signed Klee (upper left); titled, dated 1925 and numbered E null (on the artist"s mount)
Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf (acquired by 1929)
Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris
Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery), Berlin and New York (acquired by 1937-38)
Karl Nierendorf, Cologne, Berlin and New York (acquired by 1938)
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York (acquired by 1954)
Mr. and Mrs. Morton G. Neumann, Chicago (acquired by 1980)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Kunsthalle, Ausstellung der Hamburgischen Sezession verbunden mit einer Sonder-Ausstellung "Neue Europäische Kunst," 1929, no. 57
Düsseldorf, Galerie Alfred Flechteim, Paul Klee. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Graphik aus 25 Jahren , 1930, no. 99
Saarbrücken, Staatliches Museum, Paul Klee. Aquarelle aus 25 Jahren , 1930, no. 74
Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Verbindung mit der Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee , 1931, no. 173
San Francisco Museum of Art, Paul Klee , 1937
New York, Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, Paul Klee , 1938, no. 21
New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Paul Klee , 1941, no. 32
Cincinnati Art Museum, Paintings by Paul Klee and Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder , 1942
Arts Club of Chicago, Paul Klee. Works from Chicago Collections , 1962, no. 18
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection. Selected Works. , 1980, no. 69, p. 75, illustrated
Will Grohmann, Paul Klee , Stuttgart 1954, pp. 206 and 265, illustrated
Jürg Spiller, ed., Paul Klee. Das bildnerische Denken. Form und Gestaltungslehre , Basel and Stuttgart 1956, p. 155
David R. Burnett, "Paul Klee: The Romantic Landscape," Art Journal , vol. 36, no. 4, Summer 1977, p. 324, illustrated
Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné vol. IV: 1923-1926 , Bern 2000, no. 3821, p. 356, illustrated
Property from the Neumann Family Collection
Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
Ein Dorf als Reliefspiel (A Village in Playful Relief)
signed Klee (upper left); titled, dated 1925 and numbered E null (on the artist"s mount)
watercolor and Spritztechnik on paper mounted on card
sheet: 9 ½ by 12 ½ in. 24.1 by 31.8 cm.
mount: 12 ⅞ by 15 ½ in. 32.7 by 39.4 cm.
Executed in 1925.
