Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
GIFTBEEREN (POISONOUS BERRIES)
signed Klee (upper right); titled and dated 1920.92 on the artist's mount
watercolour on chalk-grounded gauze on paper laid down on the artist's mount
image size: 15.4 by 22.2cm. 6 1/8 by 8 3/4 in.
mount size: 23.5 by 31.5cm. 9 1/4 by 12 3/8 in.
Executed in 1920.
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Lily Klee, Bern
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (until 1964)
Horst Pavel, Bad Homburg (acquired from the above in 1964)
Private Collection, Germany (by descent from the above. Sold: Sotheby's, London, 28th June 1999, lot 25)
Private Collection, New York
Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Kronprinzenpalais, Paul Klee, 1923
London, The Tate Gallery in the National Gallery, Paul Klee, 1945, no. 42
Venice, Museo d'Arte Moderna Ca'Pesaro & Milan, Palazzo Reale, Paul Klee nelle collezioni private, 1986, no. 44, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen & Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Paul Klee: Im Zeichen der Teilung, 1995, no. 86, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Der Sturm, Berlin, 1923, vol. 14, no. III, illustrated in colour p. 41
Willi Wolfradt, 'Berliner Ausstellungen', in Der Cicerone, 1923, vol. 15, no. IV, p. 194
Georg Brühl, Herwarth Walden und 'Der Sturm', Cologne, 1983, no. 157, illustrated in colour p. 149
Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, Bonn, 1999, vol. 3, no. 2437, illustrated p. 207
Maler des 'Blauen Reiter'/Paul Klee/Deutsche Expressionisten (exhibition catalogue), Schlossmuseum, Murnau, 2006, illustrated in colour p. 96