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Lot 329
  • 329

Paul Klee

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Paul Klee
  • STRASSENVERZWEIGUNG (BEI AUFGEWEICHTEM BODEN)STREET JUNCTION (WITH DAMP GROUND)
  • signed Klee (towards upper right), titled, dated 1912, and numbered 111 (on the artist's mount)
  • black tempera and pen and ink on paper laid down on card

  • image size: 12.1 by 17.8cm., 4¾ by 7in.
  • mount size: 19.5 by 24.5cm., 7 3/4 by 9 5/8 in.

Provenance

Jacob Schenker Kunsthandel, Locarno
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in 1999

Exhibited

Cologne, Gereonsclub, Paul Klee, 1912, no. 55

Literature

Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, Bern, 1998, vol. I, no. 824, illustrated p. 463 

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, laid down on card, and hinged to the window mount at the upper two corners. The image on the paper element is floating in the mount. All four edges of the paper are slightly uneven. There is some slight time staining and very minor foxing to the card that the paper is laid down on. Otherwise, the work is in overall very good condition.
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