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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 17, 2025 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale | 525 | $****** - ****** | mir Hering?! |
Works on Paper
46 x 32.1 cm (18.13 x 12.63 in)
pencil on paper laid down on the artist"s mount
signed "Klee" (upper centre); dated, numbered and inscribed "1939 HH 18 mir Hering?!" (on the artist"s mount)
Raffaele Siervo, Milan, by 1973.
Anonymous sale, Finarte, Milan, 19 December 1979, lot 248.
Private collection, Turin, and thence by descent to the present owner.
C. Kroll, Die Bildtitel Paul Klees, Eine Studie zur Beziehung von Bild und Sprache in der Kunst des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Bonn, 1968, pp. 40 & 226.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue raisonné , vol. 8, 1939 , Bern, 2004, no. 8364, p. 307 (illustrated).
H. Suter, Paul Klee und seine Krankheit. Vom Schicksal geschlagen, vom Leiden gezeichnet - und dennoch!, Bern, 2006, p. 66 (illustrated).
C. Hopfengart, "Influenz. Klees Verhältnis zu Picasso zwischen heimlicher Bewunderung und kritischer Ironie", in Polyphone Resonanzen. Paul Klee und Frankreich , Berlin, 2010, p. 103 (illustrated).
A.B. Berghof, The Bookkeeper-Magician: Paul Klee and his Catalogue Raisonné, Princeton, 2023, pp. 32, 34-39 (illustrated p. 92).
A.B. Berghof, "Name Games: Paul Klee"s Titling as Self-Referential Practice", in Zwitscher-Maschine , no. 15, Bern, 2024, p. 33 (illustrated fig. 8, n.p.).
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
mir Hering?!
signed "Klee" (upper centre); dated, numbered and inscribed "1939 HH 18 mir Hering?!" (on the artist"s mount)
pencil on paper laid down on the artist"s mount
sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 ¼ in. (29.6 x 20.8 cm.)
artist"s mount: 18 1/8 x 12 5/8 in. (46 x 32.1 cm.)
Drawn in 1939
