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The Spirit of Colour: Property from a Private Collection, Germany

Paul Klee

Vorstadtbildchen im grossen koloristischen Stil - Ausschnitt einer Stadt (Small Picture of a Suburb in the Grand Colouristic Style - Section of a City)

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March 26, 01:43 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

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The Spirit of Colour: Property from a Private Collection, Germany

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

Vorstadtbildchen im grossen koloristischen Stil - Ausschnitt einer Stadt

(Small Picture of a Suburb in the Grand Colouristic Style - Section of a City)


dated 1915 and numbered 230 on the artist's mount

gouache and watercolour on card, laid down on the artist's mount

Image size: 8.4 by 18.5cm., 3¼ by 7⅜in.

Mount size: 14.5 by 24cm., 5¾ by 9½in.

Framed: 52 by 57cm., 20½ by 22½in.

Executed in 1915.

Herwarth Walden, Berlin
Ida Bienert, Dresden & Munich
Gretl (Margrete) Rupé , Munich (by descent from the above in 1965. Sold: Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 27th November 1992, lot 14)
Private Collection, Germany
A gift from the above to the present owner in 2017
Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Paul Klee und Albert Bloch, 1916, no. 46
Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Expressionisten, Futuristen, Kubisten, 1916, no. 36
Will Grohmann, Die Sammlung Ida Bienert Dresden. Privatsammlungen Neuer Kunst, Potsdam, 1933, vol. 1, p. 14 & 21
Donald E. Gordon, Modern Art Exhibitions. 1900-1916, Munich, 1974, vol. II, listed p. 892
Michael Baumgartner, 'Klee und seine frühen Sammler', in Beiträge Bern, 2000, illustrated p. 103
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee. Catalogue Raisonné 1913-1918, Bern, 2003, vol. II, no. 1565, illustrated p. 317
Dorothee Wimmer, Christina Feilchenfeldt & Stephanie Tasch (eds.), Kunstsammlerinnen. Peggy Guggenheim bis Ingvild Goetz, Berlin, 2009, p. 102 & 110