Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper

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Lot 147
  • 147

Paul Klee

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Paul Klee
  • ROSENZWERG (ROSE DWARF)

  • signed Klee (upper left); titled and dated 1927 G. 1. on the artist's mount

  • pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount

  • sheet size: 41.3 by 29.5cm., 16 1/4 by 11 5/8 in.
  • mount size: 61 by 46.6cm., 24 by 18 3/8 in.

Provenance

Berner Collection (until 1953)
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (1953-1957)
Harold Kaye, New York (from 1957)
Jacob D. Weintraub Gallery, New York
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 12th May 1987, lot 155
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (until 1988)
Private Collection, Switzerland

Exhibited

New York, New Art Center, Paul Klee Drawings & Watercolours, 1960, no. 7, illustrated in the catalogue
Waltham, Brandeis University, Paul Klee, 1960, no. 25
Munich, Haus der Kunst & Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Paul Klee - in der Maske der Mythos, 2000, no. 62, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Bologna, Museo Morandi, Paul Klee, Figure e metamorfosi, 2000-01, no. 63, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Literature

Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen 1921-1930, Potsdam & Berlin, 1934, no. 118, p. 29
Giorgio di San Lazzaro, Paul Klee, Paris, 1957,  p. 82
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, vol. V, no. 4375, illustrated p. 115

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, attached down the artist's mount, floating in the mount. Apart from some slight staining at intermittent intervals to the edges, possibly due to the adhesive attaching the work to the mount, and some time staining to the sheet, this work is in good condition. Colours: the papertone is lighter and more cream in the original.
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Catalogue Note

This drawing is a study for the oil painting Rosenzwerg, 1927, and is recorded in the artist's Werkkatalog as number 161 GI of the year 1927.