PAUL KLEE | Gelagert (Layered)

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris (acquired in 1937)
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Berlin & New York (acquired in 1938)
Lynne Thompson, Blue Hill, New York
Kleemann Galleries, New York
Thomas A. & Nathalie T. Lewis, New York
Sale: Luper Auction Galleries, Richmond, November 19, 2011, lot 50
Acquired at the above sale

Paris, Galerie Simon, Paul Klee, Oeuvres récentes, 1938, no. 25
New York, Buchholz Gallery, Paul Klee, March-April 1938, no. 74
New York, Buchholz Gallery, Paul Klee, November 1938, no. 31
New York, Buchholz Gallery, Paul Klee, André Masson & Some Aspects of Ancient and Primitive Sculpture, 1943, no. 23
New York, Buchholz Gallery, Paul Klee, 1948, no. 11
Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, Paintings by Paul Klee, 1951, no. 65

The Paul Klee Foundation & Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, eds., Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. VII, Bern, 2003, no. 7033, illustrated p. 247

Executed on cream wove paper. The sheet has been hinged to a mount at the upper left and right corners of its verso. The left, top and right edges are deckled. The original artist's mount has been cut. There is a watercolor sketch on the verso of the sheet. There is a slight undulation to the sheet. The number "06" is inscribed along the center of the top edge in pencil. There appears to be a crescent-shaped expertly repaired tear to the paper at the right half of the top edge measuring 1 inch in diameter, visible only under raking light. There are three minor tears to the right edge, each measuring no more than 1/2 inch in length. A small flattened crease extends across the lower right corner. There is a pindot hole to the center of the top edge. A scratch to the pigment is present toward the lower left corner, measuring approximately 1 inch in length. Two additional scratches toward the bottom of the right edge. Otherwise, fine. This work is in good condition.
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