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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Lot 564
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Lot 564 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
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$ 200 000 – 300 000
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Klee, P.
Stadt der Kirchen
signed 'Klee' (upper left); dated, titled and numbered '1918.99 Stadt der Kirchen' (on the artist's mount)
watercolor and pen and India ink over pencil on paper laid down on card
Sheet size: 8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. (15.5 x 20.7 cm.)
Mount size: 12 ¼ x 8 7/8 in. (31.2 x 22.5 cm.)
Executed in 1918




Provenance

Galerie Goltz, Munich (acquired from the artist, February 1920).
Private collection.
James Gilvarry, New York (by 1955); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 14 November 1984, lot 407.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

"Investing in Art—The Latest Boom" in U.S. News & World Report, January 1964, p. 69 (illustrated).
S.L. Henry, "Paul Klee's Pictorial Mechanics from Physics to the Picture Plane" in International Annual Art Journal, 1989, vol. 47, p. 154.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1913-1918, Bern, 2000, vol. 2, p. 491, no. 1946 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Zurich, Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Zweite Herbstausstellung, September-October 1919, no. 98.
Wellesley College, Farnsworth Museum, 1955.
Baltimore Museum of Art and Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Paul Klee: Private Collection James Gilvarry, June-October 1960.
Champaign, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Paul Klee from the James Gilvarry Collection, September-October 1964, no. 8 (illustrated).
Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, Paul Klee, January 1966, no. 6.
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Paul Klee: A Retrospective Exhibition, February-April 1967, p. 38, no. 31 (illustrated).
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Klee, June-August 1967, no. 34.
Santa Barbara, University of California, The Art Gallery, Paul Klee: Oils, Watercolors, Gouaches, Drawings and Prints from the James Gilvarry Collection, October-November 1967, p. 25, no. 8 (illustrated in color, p. 29).
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