PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

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Lot 286 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Dämonische Nacht

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

coloured paste, watercolour and chalk on paper laid down on the artist's mount

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

artist's mount: 13 5⁄8 x 16 ¾ in. (34.5 x 42.5 cm.)

Executed in 1939





Provenance

Lily Klee [the artist's wife], Bern.

Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, by whom acquired from the above in 1946.

Buchholz Gallery [Curt Valentin] (no. 14846), Berlin & New York, by 1953.

Henry Margulis, New York.

Ludmilla & Hans Arnhold, New York, and thence by descent.

Private Foundation, Europe, a gift from the above.



Literature

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 8, 1939, Bern, 2004, no. 8934, p. 546 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Paul Klee, September - October 1953, no. 43, n.p. (with incorrect medium).

Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, The Magical Worlds of Redon, Klee, Baziotes, January - February 1957, n.p. (with inverted dimensions and incorrect medium).
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