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Paul Klee
Hitze (Heat)
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Lot Details
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Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
Hitze (Heat)
signed Klee (upper right); dated 1940, titled and numbered L4 (on the artist’s mount)
coloured paste on paper laid down on the artist's mount
sheet: 47.8 by 62.3 cm. 18 ⅞ by 24 ½ in.
mount: 49.6 by 69.6 cm. 19 ½ by 27 ⅜ in.
Executed in 1940.
Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the artist in 1940)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946 and until circa 1950)
Hans and Erika Meyer-Benteli, Bern (acquired from the above circa 1950-52)
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired from the above in 1966)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1967)
Private Collection, Germany (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie’s, London, 4 February 2015, lot 5 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Bern, Kunsthalle, Gedächtnisausstellung Paul Klee, 1940, no. 187
Bern, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee. Das Schaffen im Todesjahr, 1990, no. 252, p. 230, illustrated in colour
Stefan Frey and Josef Helfenstein, eds., Paul Klee: Verzeichnis der Werke des Jahres 1940, Stuttgart, 1991, p. 165, illustrated
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. 9, 1940, Bern, 2005, no. 9283, p. 173, illustrated; p. 181, illustrated in colour
Josef Helfenstein, “Beschleunigung der Geschichte. Zeichen und Linie im Spätwerk Klees,” in Iris Lauterbach and Margret Stuffmann, eds., Aspekte deutscher Zeichenkunst, Munich, 2006, p. 192
Brigitte Uhde-Stahl, Paul Klees geheime Symbolik, Berlin, 2018, p. 317