Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints

/

Lot 139
  • 139

Paul Klee 1879-1940

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Log in to view results
bidding is closed

Description

  • Paul Klee
  • seiltänzer (tightrope walker) (Kornfeld 95 IV b.)
  • Sheet 530 by 380mm; 20 7/8 by 15in
Lithograph printed in colours, 1923, the fourth (final) state, signed in pencil and inscribed with the work number 23 138, from the edition of 80 (there were also 220 impressions on wove paper) printed at the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar, 1923, published by R. Piper & Co., Munich, for the portfolio Kunst der Gegenwart, on japan paper, with wide margins, the pink attenuated, overall slight foxing, backed with a sheet of fine japan paper