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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

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Lot 723 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)Odysseischsigned 'Klee' (lower right); dated, titled and numbered '1924. 260. Odysseisch' (on the artist's mount)watercolor and oil transfer on paper laid down on cardSheet size: 12 7⁄8 x 19 7⁄8 in. (32.7 x 50.3 cm.)Mount size: 19 x 25 in. (48 x 63.2 cm.)Executed in 1924 Provenance Lily Klee, Bern (wife of the artist).Galka E. Scheyer, Hollywood (acquired from the above).Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York (acquired from the above, by 1941). Acquired by the late owners, by 1980. Literature C. Kroll, Die Bildtitel Paul Klees: Eine Studie zur Beziehung von Bild und Sprache in der Kunst des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Ph.D. Diss., Universität Bonn, 1968, p. 33.V.E. Barnett, Die Blaue Vier: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee, in der Neuen Welt, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern, 1998, pp. 270-271 (illustrated, fig. 6). The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1923-1926, Bonn, 2001, vol. 4, p. 265, no. 3632 (illustrated).J. Gunz, “Hitch Puts a Bird on It: Paul Klee’s Influence on the Master of Suspense," Critical Insights Film: Alfred Hitchcock, D.A. Cunningham, ed., Amenia, 2017, p. 249. Exhibited Munich, Galerie Hans Goltz, Paul Klee: Zweite Gesamtausstellung, 1920-1925, May-June 1925, no. 193 (illustrated).Prague, Rudolfinum, II. Paul Klee, München, 60 Aquarelle, February-March 1926, no. 50.Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, Paul Klee, May-June 1926, no. 35.Los Angeles Museum, The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, October 1933, no. 140.Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art and Oakland Art Gallery, Paintings by Paul Klee, July-October 1935.San Francisco Museum of Art, Paul Klee, January-February 1937.Hollywood, Putzel Gallery, Recent Pictures by Paul Klee, November-December 1937, no. 29. The Art Institute of Chicago, The Nineteenth International Exhibition of Watercolors, April-May 1940, no. 133. New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Paul Klee, André Masson & Some Aspects of Ancient and Primitive Sculpture, February-March 1943, no. 6.
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