Information
mixed media (pen, watercolour) on paper laid on cardboard
cm 11 x 22
cm 11 x 22
Signed upper left: Klee
Dated lower left on the cardboard: 1919.65
Work registered with Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.
Certificate of authenticity issued by Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.
Certificate of authenticity issued by Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.
Provenance
Werner Allenbach;
Luzen, Galerie Rosengart;
Ginevra-New York-Nizza, James Wise;
Paris, Galerie Berggruen (unreadable label on the reverse);
N. Couturier;
Rome, La Medusa Studio d'Arte Contemporanea (label on the reverse);
Brescia, Antonio Spada;
Milan, Finarte, Asta di Grafica Contemporanea, May, 10 1979, lot 229;
private collection.
Luzen, Galerie Rosengart;
Ginevra-New York-Nizza, James Wise;
Paris, Galerie Berggruen (unreadable label on the reverse);
N. Couturier;
Rome, La Medusa Studio d'Arte Contemporanea (label on the reverse);
Brescia, Antonio Spada;
Milan, Finarte, Asta di Grafica Contemporanea, May, 10 1979, lot 229;
private collection.
Exhibition
Munich, Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Paul Klee. Der Ararat. Zweites Sonderheft, 60 Austellung, May, 17 - June, 25 1920, n. 207;Kunst-Verein zu Jena, Paul Klee, July, 11 - August, 1 1920, n. 58;Paris, Galerie Europe, Klee, Kandinsky, Brancusi (Sculptures), February-March 1961, n. 5.
Literature
Paul Klee. Catalogue Raisonné , Vol. 3: 1919-1922, Paul-Klee Stiftung, Kunstmuseum, Bern 1999, n. 2128;J. Anger, Modernism and the Gendering of Paul Klee, Dissertation, Brown University, Providence 1997, p. 120;A. Ehrmann-Schindlbeck-M. Schmid-F. Joachim Verspohl, Paul Klee in Jena 1924, exhibition catalog (Jena 1999), p. 152.
Condition report
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