PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Lot 524
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Lot 524 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Verschleiertes

signed 'Klee' (lower left)

watercolor on paper

19 3⁄8 x 12 5⁄8 in. (49.5 x 30.5 cm.)

Painted in 1934





Provenance

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris.

Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery), Berlin and New York (by 1938).

Galka E. Scheyer, New York.

Karl Nierendorf, New York (by 1942).

Estella Katzenellenbogen, Santa Monica.

Ludmilla and Hans Arnhold, New York (then by descent).

Private Foundation, Europe (gift from the above).



Literature

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue raisonné, 1934-1938, Bern, 2000, vol. 7, p. 40, no. 6544 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Kunsthalle Bern, Paul Klee, February-March 1935, p. 13, no. 230.

Kunstverein Winterthur, Das Graphische Kabinett, Kleine Sonderausstellung von Prof. Paul Klee, Bern, May-June 1935, no. 155.

New York, Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery), Paul Klee, March-April 1938, no. 57.

The Detroit Institute of Arts, International Watercolor Exhibition, October 1938, no. 95.

Cambridge, Germanic Museum, Harvard University, Paul Klee, February-March 1940.

The Arts Students League of New York, Paul Klee, 1941, no. 12.

Cincinnati Art Museum, Paintings by Paul Klee and Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder, April-June 1942.

Los Angeles, The Modern Institute of Art, Klee: 30 Years of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Lithographs and in a Klee-like-mood: 2000 Years of Coptic, Persian, Chinese, European and Peruvian Textiles, March-June 1948, no. 70.

New York, Kleemann Galleries, Paul Klee, March 1955, no. 16 (illustrated).
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