PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Lot 558
11.11.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 250 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1059440
Lot 558 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Schwarze Messe

signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, titled and inscribed '1936 13 Schwarze Messe' (on the artist's mount)

pastel on joined linen mounted on card

Image size: 10 ¾ x 21 in. (27.2 x 53.2 cm.)

Mount size: 15 1⁄8 x 25 1⁄8 in. (31.4 x 63.7 cm.)

Drawn in 1936





Provenance

Private collection, Bern.

Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired from the above, 1953).

Ludmilla and Hans Arnhold, New York (acquired from the above, September 1954, then by descent).

Private Foundation, Europe (gift from the above).



Literature

C. Kröll, Die Bildtitel Paul Klees, Eine Studie zur Beziehung von Bild und Sprache in der Kunst des zwanstigsten jahrhunderts, Bonn, 1968, p. 76.

C. Geelhaar, "Paul Klee 'Früchte auf Rot” in Pantheon, 1972, vol. 30, no. 3, p. 227.

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue raisonné, 1934-1938, Bern, 2003, vol. VII, p. 211, no. 6924 (illustrated).
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