Paul Klee

Das und dies

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October 4, 05:21 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Chicago

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

Das und dies

signed Klee (upper right) and dated and inscribed 1927 A7 das und dies (on the mount)

pen and ink on paper mounted on card

sheet: 11 by 12 ⅛ in. (28 by 31 cm.)

mount: 19 ½ by 25 ⅜ in. (50.1 by 65 cm.)

Executed in 1927.

Lily Klee, Bern (acquired in 1940)

Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired in 1946)

Buchholz Gallery and Curt Valentin Gallery, Berlin and New York (acquired circa 1950)

Private Collection, United States

Thence by descent to the present owner

Will Grohmann, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen 1921-1930, Potsdam/Berlin, 1934, no. 72

Paul Klee Stiftung, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, vol. 5, no. 4320, p. 97, illustrated