PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Lot 635
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ID 846143
Lot 635 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Sein Schatten

signed 'Klee' (upper right); dated, numbered and titled '1934 K 17 sein Schatten' (on the artist's mount)

colored paste on paper laid down on card

Sheet size: 12 3/8 x 18 7/8 in. (31.4 x 48 cm.)

Mount size: 13 1/2 x 20 in. (34.3 x 50.9 cm.)

Painted in 1934





Provenance

Lily Klee, Bern (wife of the artist).

Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above, 1946).

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris.

Saidenberg Gallery, Inc., New York.

Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London (by 1960).

Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York (from whom stolen, 1988).

Private collection, New York.

Bronxville Art Center, New York.

Private collection, New York (acquired from the above).

Private collection, Europe (acquired from the above).

Recovered by the Art Loss Register, 2022, and offered on behalf of insurers.



Literature

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue raisonné, 1934-1938, Bonn, 2004, vol. 7, p. 51, no. 6575 (illustrated).



Exhibited

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., XIX and XX Century Drawings, Watercolours and XX Century Sculpture, February-March 1960, no. 42a (illustrated).

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., Drawings, Watercolours, Collages: Expressionism, Bauhaus, Dada, January 1966, no. 36 (illustrated).

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., Paul Klee, June-July 1966, no. 50 (illustrated).

New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Paul Klee, October-November 1969, no. 45 (illustrated).

Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery, Paul Klee, September-October 1978, no. 34 (illustrated).
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