Lot 235
  • 235

Paul Klee

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Description

  • Paul Klee
  • KOPF EINES FRIESISCHEN MÄDCHENS (HEAD OF A FRISIAN GIRL)
  • signed Klee (lower left); dated 1928, numbered J.5. and titled on the artist's mount (lower centre)
  • pencil on paper laid down on the artist's mount
  • sheet size: 32.3 by 20.3cm., 12 3/4 by 8 1/2 in.
  • mount size: 48 by 31cm., 18 7/8 by 12 1/4 in.

Provenance

Lily Klee, Bern (1940-46)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-50)
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Berlin & New York (acquired from the above in 1950)
Danah Fayman, San Diego
Gift from the above to the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego in 2001

Exhibited

Will Grohmann, Paul Klee. Handzeichnungen 1921-1930, Potsdam & Berlin, 1934, no. 106 
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné 1927-30, Bern, 2001, vol. V, no. 4727, illustrated p. 257

Catalogue Note

comp: 177D06009_COMP    Fig. 1, Paul Klee,  Monument in Arbeit, 1929, watercolour on paper,  Private Collection, New York