Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
DAEMONISCHE MARIONETTEN (DEMONIC PUPPETS)
Signed Klee and titled daemonische marionetten (lower right) and dated 1929 n.8 (lower left), also numbered 51/171/2 on lower left of mount
Gouache and pen on linen laid down on card
Composition: 14 1/2 by 9 7/8 in. 37 by 25 cm
Mount: 25 3/8 by 19 1/4 in. 64.5 by 49 cm
Executed in 1929.
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Rudolf Probst, Dresden (acquired in 1929)
Helmuth Domizlaff, Munich
Sale: Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 18, 1986, lot 394
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Die Maler am Bauhaus, 1950, no. 141
Lucern, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Deutsche Kunst, Meisterwerke des 20. Jahrhunderts, 1953, no. 280, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Venice, Deutscher Pavillon, XXVII Biennale di Venezia, 1954, no. 27
The Paul Klee Foundation & Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, eds., Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, 1927-1930, vol.V, Bern, 1999, no. 4804, illustrated p. 283