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Paul Klee

Beherrschte Gruppe

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May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

180,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from A Japanese Private Collection

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

Beherrschte Gruppe


signed Klee (upper left); titled, dated 1933 and numbered L4 (on the mount)

watercolor on chalk and glue-primed paper mounted on card

sheet: 8⅜ by 12¾ in. 21.3 by 32.5 cm.

mount: 19¼ by 25½ in. 48.9 by 65 cm.

Executed in 1933. 

Lily Klee, Bern (acquired in 1940)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946)
Felix Klee, Bern (acquired from the above in 1953) 
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris (acquired from the above circa 1986)
Nakamiya Gallery, Osaka
Acquired from the above in 1991 by the present owner


Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Paul Klee, 1935, no. 212
Luzern, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Paul Klee, Fritz Huf, 1936, no. 83
St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Klee, Werke aus dem Familienbesitz, 1955, no. 134
Lugano, Museo civico di belle arti, Villa Ciani, Paul Klee. Collezione di Felix Paul Klee, Berna, 1972, no. 77
Paris, Galerie Karl Flinker, Paul Klee, les dix dernières années, 1985, no. 15
Jürg Spiller, Paul Klee, Das Bildnerische Denken. Form- und Gestaltungslehre, Basel and Stuttgart, 1956, p. 176, p. 211, illustrated
Deborah Rosenthal, "Paul Klee: The Lesson of the Master," Arts Magazine, 1977, p. 159
Paul Klee Foundation, eds., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné 1931-1933, vol. VI, Bern, 2002, no. 6069, p. 311, illustrated