Lot 216
  • 216

Paul Klee

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Description

  • Paul Klee
  • LANDSCHAFT MIT D. WOLF (LANDSCAPE WITH THE WOLF)
  • signed Klee (lower left); dated 1929 and numbered p8 (lower left) and titled (lower right) on the artist's mount
  • pencil on paper
  • sheet size: 21 by 32.5cm., 8 1/4 by 12 3/4 in.
  • mount size: 34.3 by 45.4cm., 13 1/2 by 17 7/8 in.

Provenance

Lily Klee, Bern (1940-46)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-50)
Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery; Valentin Gallery), Berlin & New York (acquired in 1950)
Lyonel Feininger, Dessau & New York
Julia Feininger, New York (by descent from the above 1956)
Mr & Mrs Orrel P. Reed Jr., Malibu (by 1979)
Sale: Christie's, New York, 11th May 1989, lot 145
Jonathan Leaver (sale: Sotheby's, London, 4th April 1990, lot 148)
Acquired by the present owners circa 1990

 

Exhibited

Long Beach, Museum of Art, The Blue Four, 1985, no. 62
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin) Klee. Sixty Unknown Drawings, 1951, no. 41
Cologne, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee: Das Werk der Jahre 1919-1933, Gemälde, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik, 1979, no. 261, illustrated in the catalogue 

Literature

Will Grohmann, Paul Klee. Handzeichnungen 1921-1930, Potsdam & Berlin, 1934, no. 29
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee Catalogue raisonné, 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, vol. V, no. 4824, illustrated p. 290