PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Lot 155
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Lot 155 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
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$ 40 000 – 60 000
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Spreng=Holz
signed 'Klee' (upper left); dated, titled and numbered '1938 X 5 Spreng=Holz' (on the artist's mount)
pastel on paper laid down on card
Sheet size: 11 ¾ x 8 ¼ in. (29.8 x 20.9 cm.)
Mount size: 17 ¼ x 13 ½ in. (43.7 x 34.2 cm.)
Drawn in 1938




Provenance

Berner collection (until 1952).
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (by 1952, and until at least 1970).
David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee.
Milton Katz, Milwaukee (1970).
Rabbi Jay R. and Rita Brickman, Wisconsin (by 1990).
By descent from the above to the present owner.



Literature

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1934-1938, Bern, 2000, vol. 7, p. 482, no. 7587 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Stuttgart, Württemberg Art Association and Emden Art Museum, Paul Klee: Spätwerk, October 1990-April 1991, p. 529, no. 107 (illustrated in color, p. 237).
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