Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction
Paul Klee
Beflaggte Stadt (Town Decked with Flags)
Auction Closed
June 29, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
Beflaggte Stadt (Town Decked with Flags)
signed Klee (lower right); titled, dated 1927., numbered 2. and indistinctly inscribed in pencil S.Cl. on the artist's mount
gouache, watercolour and Spritztechnik on paper laid down on the artist's mount
image size: 29.3 by 22.1cm., 11½ by 8¾in.
mount size: 49.7 by 38.7cm., 19⅝ by 15¼in.
Executed in 1927.
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重要私人收藏
保羅・克利
1879 - 1940年
《旗幟飄揚的城鎮》
款識：藝術家簽名 Klee（右下）；書題目、紀年1927、標記 2. 並於畫托上以鉛筆隱約畫上星號及 S.Cl.
水粉、水彩及 Spritztechnik 紙本，貼於藝術家自選畫托
畫心：29.3 x 22.1 公分；11 ½ x 8 ¾ 英寸
畫托：49.7 x 38.7 公分；19 ⅝ x 15 ¼ 英寸
1927年作
Dr Hans Meyer-Benteli (Klee Gesellschaft), Bern (acquired from the above in 1946)
Dr Hans & Erika Meyer-Benteli, Bern (acquired in 1953)
Ted & Meret Schaap-Meyer, Vallamand-Dessous (by descent from the above in 1956. Sold: Christie’s, London, 30th November 1992, lot 26)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above in 1992
Pierre Courthion, Klee, London & Paris, 1953, illustrated in colour pl. 8 (titled Town hung with flags)
Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, London, 1954, mentioned p. 247 (titled Ville pavoisée)
Carola Giedion-Welcker, Paul Klee, Stuttgart, 1954, no. 98, illustrated p. 119
Jürg Spiller (ed.), Paul Klee, Das bildnerische Denken, Form- und Gestaltungslehre, Basel & Stuttgart, 1956, vol. I, p. 263
G. di San Lazzaro, Klee, A Study of his Life and Work, London, 1957, illustrated in colour p. 103 (titled Beflaggte Stadt (Flagged Town))
Max Huggler, 'Paul Klee', in Künstler Lexikon der Schweiz, XX. Jahrhundert, Frauenfeld, 1961, vol. I, mentioned p. 525
Ernest Raboff, Paul Klee, Kunst für Kinder, Geneva, 1969
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ed.), Catalogue of reproductions of paintings - 1860 to 1969, Paris, 1969, no. 634, illustrated p. 229 (titled City with Flags)
Jürg Spiller (ed.), Paul Klee, Unendliche Naturgeschichte, Prinzipielle Ordnung der der bildnerischen Mittel verbunden mit Naturstudium, und konstruktive Kompositionswege, Form und Gestaltungslehre, Basel & Stuttgart, 1970, vol. II, illustrated p. 196 (with inverted measurements)
Jürg Spiller (ed.), Paul Klee, Notebooks, Volume 2, The nature of nature, London, 1973, illustrated p. 196 (titled Flag-decked city and with inverted measurements)
Christine Hopfengart, 'Klee an den deutschen "Museen der Gegenwart", 1816-1933', in Paul Klee, Kunst und Karriere, Beiträge des Internationalen Symposiums in Bern, Bern, 2000, vol. I, mentioned p. 83
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, vol. V, no. 4215, illustrated in colour p. 50; illustrated p. 37
Guschti Meyer, Sprache der Bilder, Kunst verstehen: Form, Farbe, Komposition, Leipzig, 2011
Paul Klee, Sonderklasse, unverkäuflich (exhibition catalogue), Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern & Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, 2014-15, no. 175, illustrated in colour p. 359