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Paul Klee
Description
- Paul Klee
- Ohne Titel (Tänzerin und Mondsichel) (Untitled. Dancer and Crescent Moon)
- indistinctly signed (upper left); dated 1918. 5. on the artist's mount
- watercolour on chalk-ground gauze on gold paper laid down on the artist’s mount
- sheet size: 21.3 by 11.5cm., 8 3/8 by 4 1/2 in.
- mount size: 26.7 by 16cm., 10 1/2 by 6 1/4 in.
Provenance
Kunsthandlung Goyert, Cologne & Munich
Teschenmacher, Tegernsee (until 1959)
Sale: Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 20th & 21st November 1959, lot 377
Acquired by the family of the present owners in 1959
Exhibited
Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, 2. Internationale der Zeichnung, 1967, no. 28, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Cologne, Kunsthalle, Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, 1968, no. G 5 (titled Tänzerin und Mondsichel)
Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek (on loan 1978-2017)
Literature
Catalogue Note
Ernst-Gerhard Güse explains how this use of colour led towards the universalism that Klee sought: ‘He [Klee] too saw nature and cosmos as determined by contrasts, movements and counter-movements […]. The contrasts of colours, their movement of separating and closing up, were simply an image of the all-embracing movement that he found in nature. In the work of art contrasts are transcended, “a formal cosmos is achieved, so much like the Creation that a mere breath suffices to transform religion into act”’(E.-G. Güse (ed.), Paul Klee. Dialogue with Nature, Munich, 1991, p. 14).