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Paul Klee

Gebirgsbewegung (3= und 4= takt) (Mountain Movement (In Three and Four Time))

Lot Closed

April 19, 01:29 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Paul Klee

1880 - 1940

Gebirgsbewegung (3= und 4= takt) (Mountain Movement (In Three and Four Time))

signed Klee (upper left); titled, dated 1928.7.8 and numbered J.8 on the mount

watercolour and pen and ink on paper mounted on the artist's mount

Sheet size: 32.7 by 47.5cm., 12⅞ by 18¾in.

Mount size: 41 by 54cm., 16⅛ by 21¼in.

Framed: 59.5 by 71.5cm., 23⅜ by 28⅛in.

Executed in 1928. 

Lily Klee, Bern (by descent from the artist in 1940 and until 1944)

James Goodman Gallery, New York

Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in 1977)

J. Bruce Jacobs, Santa Monica (acquired by circa 1987)

Acquavella Galleries, New York

Michael & Judy Steinhardt, New York (acquired from the above in 1988. Sold: Christie's, New York, 9th November 2000, lot 430)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee, 1929, no. 109

Düsseldorf, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Graphik aus 25 Jahren, 1930, no. 125

Saarbrücken, Staatliches Museum, Paul Klee, Aquarelle aus 25 Jahren, 1905 bis 1930, 1930, no. 60

Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, & Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee, 1931, no. 195

New York, Nierendorf Gallery & Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1938

San Francisco, Museum of Art, Paul Klee, 1939, no. 42

New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Fifth Selection of Works by Paul Klee, 1942, no. 8

Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, vol. V, no. 4730, illustrated p. 258 (with incorrect provenance)