Lot 217
  • 217

Paul Klee

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Description

  • Paul Klee
  • DRAMA IN DER KUHWELT (DRAMA IN THE WORLD OF COWS)
  • signed Klee (upper right); titled and dated 1915 234 on the artist's mount
  • pen and ink on paper attached to the artist's mount
  • sheet size: 7 by 24.2cm., 2 3/4 by 9 1/2 in.
  • mount size: 16.4 by 32.1., 6 1/2 by 12 5/8 in.

Provenance

Hans Bekker von Rath, Frankfurt (sale: Sotheby's London, 29th November 1989, lot 440)
Achim Moeller Fine Art Ltd., New York (purchased at the above sale) 

Exhibited

Berlin, Kunstausstellung Der Sturm, Paul Klee, 1918, illustrated in the catalogue
Stuttgart, Herbstschau Neuer Kunst, Kunstgebäude, Der Sturm und Üecht-Gruppe, 1920
Cannes, Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paul Klee, Œuvres sur papier, 1990, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, Stuttgart, 1954, p. 144
Otto Karl Werckmeister, The Making of Paul Klee's Career 1914-1920, Chicago, 1989, pp. 278 & 281
J. Anger, Modernism and the Gendering of Paul Klee, Phd thesis, Brown University, Rhode Island, 1997, p. 97
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné 1913-1918, Bern, 2000, no. 1569, illustrated p. 318