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Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Lot 111
21.10.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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ID 832298
Lot 111 | Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Estimate value
€ 20 000 – 30 000
Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Küstenlandschaft

signé 'Klee' (en haut à droite)

aquarelle sur papier

17 x 23.7 cm.

Exécuté en 1915



signed 'Klee' (upper right)

watercolour on paper

6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.

Executed in 1915





Provenance

Galerie der Sturm (Herwarth Walden), Berlin (acquis auprès de l'artiste).

Herbert von Garvens-Garvensburg, Hanovre (en 1917).

Karl Nierendorf Gallery, Cologne, Berlin et New York (avant 1941 et jusqu'à au moins 1944).

J.B. Sainsbury, New York.

(probablement) Galerie Europe, Paris.

Vente, Lempertz Auktion, Cologne, 6 décembre 1963, lot 352.

Vente, Galerie Motte, Genève, 23 mai 1964, lot 114.

Vente, Sotheby & Co., Londres, 3 juillet 1969, lot 288.

Paul Haim, Paris.

Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto (avant 1990); vente, Christie's, New York, 11 mai 1995, lot 258.

Collection particulière, États-Unis (acquis au cours de cette vente).

Vente, Sotheby's, New York, 18 novembre 1998, lot 528.

Galleria Marescalchi, Bologne.

Collection particulière, Bologne (acquis auprès de celle-ci vers la fin des années 1990).

Acquis auprès de celle-ci par le propriétaire actuel.



Literature

P. Klee, Lettre adressée à Lily Klee, 19 mars 1917.

P. Klee, Lettre adressée à Lily Klee, 10 décembre 1917.

K. Nierendorf, éd., Paul Klee, Paintings, Watercolors, 1913 to 1939, New York, 1941, p. 7, no. 3 (illustré).

M. Armitage, 5 Essays on Klee, New York, 1950, p. 88.

J. Anger, Modernism and the Gendering of Paul Klee, thèse, Brown University, Providence, 1997, p. 86.

The Paul Klee Foundation, éd., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, 1913-1918, Londres, 2000, vol. 2, p. 298, no. 1506 (illustré).

A. Baumann, 'Scouts der künstlerischen Avantgarde im Norden, Herbert von Gravens und Otto Ralfs als Sammler und Händler der Künstler Baumeister, Ensor, Jawlensky und Klee', in C. M. Galler, J. Meiners et C. Andratschke, Regionaler Kunsthandel, Eine Herausforderung für die Provenienzforschung?!, Heidelberg, 2022, p. 382.



Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Paul Klee, Georg Muche, Gema¨lde und Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, février 1917, no. 9.

Hanovre, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Neue Münschener Kunst, Gemälde, Graphik, XII. Sonderausstellung, décembre 1917-janvier 1918, no. 60.

New York, New Art Circle I. B. Neumann, Paul Klee, octobre 1943, no. 1.

Philadelphie, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Paul Klee, Paintings, Drawings, Prints, mars-avril 1944, no. 65.

Londres, Brook Street Gallery, Klee, juin-septembre 1966, no. 3 (illustré).

Toronto, Mira Godard Gallery, Masters of the 20th Century, 1990.



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