Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper

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Lot 217
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Paul Klee

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Description

  • Paul Klee
  • TAGEBUCH PORT CROS: BLICK VON LA VIGIE NACH LEVANT (PORT CROS DIARY: VIEW FROM LA VIGIE TOWARDS LEVANT)
  • signed Klee (lower left) and inscribed Aussicht von La Vigie (lower right); dated 1933 and numbered J 17 (lower right) and titled (lower right) on the artist's mount
  • oil on paper laid down on the artist's mount
  • sheet size: 38.5 by 49.5cm., 15 1/4 by 19 1/2 in.
  • mount size: 50.5 by 61cm., 19 7/8 by 24in.

Provenance

Werner Allenbach, Bern
Berggruen & Cie., Paris (acquired from the above in 1955)
Brook Street Gallery, London
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 3rd July 1974, lot 157
Waddington Galleries Ltd., London (until 1983)
Private Collection, Great Britain (acquired from the above in 1983)
Private Collection, Switzerland

Literature

Jürgen Glaesemer, Paul Klee.  Handzeichnungen II.  1921-1936, Bern, 1984, mentioned p. 349
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee Catalogue raisonné, 1927-1930, Bern, 2002, vol. VI, no. 6524, illustrated p. 499