PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Lot 562
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Lot 562 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Dämonische Nacht

signed 'Klee' (lower center); dated, titled and inscribed '1939 OP 7 daemonische Nacht' (on the artist's mount)

colored paste, watercolor and chalk on paper mounted on card

Image size: 8 ¼ x 11 ¼ in. (20.5 x 29.4 cm.)

Mount size: 13 3⁄8 x 16 ¾ in. (33.9 x 42.5 cm.)

Executed in 1939





Provenance

Lily Klee, Bern (wife of the artist).

Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above, 1946).

Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Berlin and New York (by 1953).

Henry Margulis, New York.

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, 1939, Bern, 2004, vol. VIII, p. 546, no. 8934 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Paul Klee, September-October 1953, no. 43.

Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, The Magical Worlds of Redon, Klee, Baziotes, January-February 1957.
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