PAUL KLEE (1879-1940) - photo 1

PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Lot 467
04.03.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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ID 717957
Lot 467 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Estimate value
£ 220 000 – 320 000
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Zwei Lustschlösschen

dated and numbered ‘1918 120’ (on the artist’s mount)

watercolour on burlap laid down on the artist's mount

image: 8 x 10 1⁄4 in. (20.3 x 26.1 cm.)

artist's mount: 11 1⁄8 x 12 3⁄4 in. (28.3 x 32.4 cm.)

Executed in 1918







Provenance

Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich, by 1922.

Paul Westheim, Berlin, by 1928.

Dr. Charlotte Weidler, Berlin & New York.

Acquired from the above by the late owner, circa 1978.





Literature

C. Bell, Kunst, Dresden, 1922, p. 176 (illustrated).

S. Cheney, A Primer of Modern Art, New York, 1932, p. 172 (illustrated p. 171).

W. Haftmann, C. Giedion-Welcker, W. Grohmann, W. Schmalenbach & G. Schmidt, Im Zwischenreich: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen von Paul Klee, Cologne, 1957, p. 18 (illustrated p. 36).

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1913-1918, Bonn, vol. 2, 1998, no. 1967, p. 497 (illustrated; catalouged as 'signed 'Klee' (upper right)).





Exhibited

Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Ausstellung Neuerer deutscher Kunst aus Berliner Privatbesitz, April 1928, no. 71, p. 27 (titled 'Kleines Bild').

Bern, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee Ausstellung in Verbindung mit der Paul-Klee-Stiftung, August-November 1956, no. 418, p. 69.

Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, December 1956-January 1957, no. 82.

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Klee: A Retrospective Exhibition, February-July 1967, no. 32, p. 35 (illustrated; titled 'Two Little Pleasure Castles').

New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Der Blaue Reiter und eins Kreis, March-May 1977, no. 33, p. 48 (illustrated; titled 'Zwei Kleine Lustschlösschen').





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This lot was subject to an ownership claim asserted by an heir to a past owner of the lot. The New York courts denied this claim and ruled in favor of the current owner. Accordingly, title will pass to the successful bidder.
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