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Property from a Private Collection

Paul Klee

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November 19, 07:06 PM GMT

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300,000 - 400,000 USD

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Property from a Private Collection

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

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Signed Klee (lower center); dated 1924.6. and titled (on the mount)

Watercolor, oil transfer and pen and ink on paper mounted on card

Image: 11 7/8 by 8 7/8 in. (30.2 by 22.5 cm); Mount: 13 1/4 by 10 in. (33.7 by 25.4 cm)

Framed: 17 1/4 by 19 1/8 in. (43.8 by 48.6 cm)

Executed in 1924. 

Galerie Neue Kunst (Hans Goltz), Munich, on commission from the artist 1924-5

Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, on commission from the artist 1930-4

Galerie Simon (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris, on commission from the artist, stock # B12062, 1934

Israel Ber Neumann (Graphisches Kabinett, New Art Circle, Neumann Gallery), New York, on commission from the artist, 1934-5

Phillip L. Goodwin, New York, by 1940 until at least 1946

Kleeman Gallery, New York

Buchholz Gallery, New York

Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles

William Ward, New York, by 1955

E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York, by 1958

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above circa 1960s)

A gift from the above

The Paul Klee Foundation & Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, eds., Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, 1923-1926, vol. IV, Bern, 1999, no. 3374, illustrated p. 155