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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Lot 123
10.11.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 838998
Lot 123 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
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$ 100 000 – 150 000
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Schlussbild einer Tragikomödie

signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, titled and numbered ‘1923 144 Schluss Bild Einer Tragikomödie III’ (on the mount)

oil transfer, gouache and watercolor on gesso-prepared paper mounted by the artist on painted card

Sheet size: 10 x 13 3/4 in. (25.2 x 35 cm.)

Mount size: 11 7/8 x 14 7/8 in. (30 x 37.8 cm.)

Executed in 1923





Provenance

Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Berlin.

Karl Nierendorf, New York.

Katherine Dreier, New York (1926, until 1942).

Philip C. Johnson, New York (by 1943).

Andy Warhol, New York (acquired from the above, 1952); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 29-30 April 1988, lot 2853.

Heinz Berggruen, Paris (1988, until 1990).

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 May 2000, lot 241.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

W. Grohmann, "Paul Klee 1923-1924“ in Der Cicerone, 1924, p. 792.

A.H. Barr, Jr., Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, 1929-1967, New York, 1977 p. 607 (with incorrect medium).

J. Glaesemer, Paul Klee. Handzeichnungen II, 1921-1936, Bern, 1984, p. 21 (illustrated; with incomplete medium and incorrect provenance).

R.L. Herbert, E.S. Apter and E.K. Kenney, eds., The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1984, p. 772.

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1923-1926, Bern, 1999, vol. 4, p. 109, no. 3238 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, Paul Klee, 1924.

Munich, Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Paul Klee Zweite Gesamtausstellung 1920-1925, May-June 1925, no. 102.

Kunsthalle Bern, Der grosse Bär, Paul Klee, Paul Eichenberger, Dora Lauterburg, Robert Schmitz, 1925, no. 101.

New York, The Brooklyn Museum, International Exhibition of Modern Art, November 1926-January 1927, no. 224 (with incomplete medium).

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1943 (on loan).

Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Berggruen Collection, June-October 1988, p. 116, no. 42 (illustrated in color, p. 117).

Kunsthalle Tübingen and London, Tate Gallery, Paul Klee: Die Sammlung Berggruen im Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York und im Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, January-August 1989 (illustrated in color).



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