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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Lot 15
09.11.2022 19:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 1 200 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 838946
Lot 15 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Estimate value
$ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Bunte Landschaft

signed, dated and inscribed 'Klee 1928 E 2' (upper right); signed and dated again, titled and inscribed '1928. E 2. bunte Landschaft Klee Notiz! Tempera! unter Glas zu halten!!' (on the stretcher)

oil and tempera on incised plaster on board mounted by the artist to the stretcher

8 3/8 x 14 1/4 in. (21.4 x 36 cm.)

Executed in 1928





Provenance

Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin and Dusseldorf (on consignment from the artist, 1928).

Alex Vömel, Dusseldorf (on consignment from the artist, until sold November 1934).

(possibly) Hermann Lange, Krefeld.

Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich.

Private collection, Germany (acquired from the above, 1982); sale, Christie’s, London, 8 December 1999, lot 64.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

C. Rümelin, "Klees Umgang mit seinem eigenen Oeuvre" in Balingen, 2001, p. 219, no. 78.

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, vol. 5, p. 243, no. 4684 (illustrated; illustrated again in color, p. 207).



Exhibited

Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, Paul Klee, R. Sintenis, December 1928, no. 38.

Paris, Galerie Georges Bernheim et Cie, Paul Klee, February 1929, no. 37.

Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee, October-November 1929, no. 103.

Dusseldorf, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee: Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Graphik aus 25 Jahren, February-March 1930, p. 7, no. 29 (dated 1914).

Dusseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen and Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee, June-July 1931, p. 10, no. 57.



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Artist:Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
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