Lot 377
  • 377

Paul Klee

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Paul Klee
  • Dorfhexe (Village Witch)
  • Signed Klee (upper left); titled, dated 1925 and inscribed 1 acht (on the artist's mount)
  • Pen and ink on paper mounted on paper mounted on card
  • Sheet: 5 5/8 by 11 1/8 in.; 14.2 by 28.2 cm
  • Mount: 9 1/4 by 14 3/8 in.; 23.5 by 36.5 cm

Provenance

Lily Klee, Bern (by descent from the artist in 1940)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946)
Karl Nierendorf, Cologne, Berlin & New York (acquired from the above in 1947)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1951)
Thence by descent

Literature

Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen 1921-1930, Potsdam & Berlin, 1934, no. 71
The Paul Klee Foundation & Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, eds., Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné 1923-1926, vol. IV, Bern, 2000, no. 3869, illustrated p. 373

Condition

Executed on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper mounted on card. Sheet is slightly time darkened and there appears to be a mat stain around the perimeter of the sheet. Right and bottom edges are deckled, top and left edges are cut. Some handling stains around the extreme edge of the artist's mount. This work is generally in very good condition.
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