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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Paul Klee

Strahlenbäume (Radiant Trees)

Auction Closed

November 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940


Strahlenbäume (Radiant Trees)

signed (lower right); titled, dated 1915 and numbered 249 (on the artist's mount)

watercolor and pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount

sheet: 5⅜ by 4½ in. 13.7 by 11.5 cm.

mount: 10¼ by 8⅝ in. 26 by 21.9 cm.

Executed in 1915.

The artist
Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the above in 1940)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946)
Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery), Berlin and New York (acquired in 1953)
Clifford Odets, New York and Los Angeles (acquired in 1963)
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 15 May 1969, lot 52 (consigned by the estate of the above)
The Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in August 1970 by the present owner
London, The Tate Gallery in the National Gallery, Paul Klee, 1945, no. 27
New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Paul Klee: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of His Birth, March - April 1954, no. 2
Waltham, Brandeis University, Paul Klee, May - June 1960, no. 3
Christina Kröll, Die Bildtitel Paul Klees. Eine Studie zur Beziehung von Bild und Sprache in der Kunst des zwanzigsten Jarhunderts, Bonn, 1968, p. 36
Katja Schenker, Titel-Bild-Gedicht. Paul Klee, "Einst dem Grau der Nacht enttaucht..." 1918.17, in Georges-Bloch-Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Universität Zürich, vol. V, 1998, p. 153
Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné: 1927-1930, vol. V, Bonn, 2002, no. 1584, p. 323, illustrated