The Swiss Fine Art Sale

The Swiss Fine Art Sale

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Lot Closed

December 14, 02:11 PM GMT

Estimate

24,000 - 35,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

Fontainen-Baum, 1939


Paste colour on paper laid down on cardboard

Signed upper centre

29 x 20.5 cm (sheet); 53.5 x 44.5 cm (framed)

Werner Allenbach, Berne (until 1958)
Berggruen & Cie, Paris (1958)
James Wise, Geneva/New York/Nizza (1958)
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 7th June 1974, no. 980
Weintraub Gallery, New York
Private collection, USA (acquired from the above sale in the 1980s)
Bonhams, New York, 13th November 2018, lot 18
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

The Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee. Catalogue raisonné, Band 8, 1939, Berne, 2004, p. 155, no. 7983, ill. 
C. Hopfengart, M. Baumgartner, Paul Klee: Life and Work, Berne, 2012, p. 303, ill.