Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
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
Executed in 1925.
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Saleroom Notice
We are grateful to Stefan Frey, Bern, for his kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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
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