PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Lot 451
04.03.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 451 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Explosion

signed 'Klee' (upper left); dated, numbered and inscribed '1927.Y.10. Explosion' and 'S. Cl' (on the artist's mount)

watercolour and pen and ink with Spritztechnik on paper laid down on the artist's mount

image: 8 7⁄8 x 12 in. (22.5 x 30.4 cm.)

artist's mount: 15 1⁄2 x 18 in. (39.3 x 45.7 cm.)

Executed in 1927







Provenance

Lily Klee, Bern, by descent from the artist.

Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, by whom acquired from the above in 1946, and until 1950.

Galerie Berggruen & Cie., Paris.

Arthur Kauffmann, London, and thence by descent to the present owner.





Literature

C. Hopfengart, 'Klee an den deutschen "Museen der Gegenwart", 1916-1933', in Paul Klee, Kunst und Karriere, Beiträge des Internationalen Symposiums, Bern, 2000, p. 82.

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, no. 4464, p. 145 (illustrated).

Exh. cat., Paul Klee – Making Visible, London, 2013, p. 26.

S. Martinez Vilajuana, Hacer de una imagen pensamiento. Llíneas, fuerzas, color. Un encuentro entre Paul Klee y Gilles Deleuze, dis., Universidad de Chile, 2018, pp. 164 & 216 (illustrated).

B. Kieselbach, 'Die Bauhaustapete in Hannes Meyers Wanderschau 1929⁄1930', in Zwitscher-Maschine, Journal on Paul Klee, no. 8, Bern, Spring 2020, no. 8, p. 27.

O. Okuda, 'Paul Klee's Werke in der Bauhaus Wanderschau im Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich, July - August 1930', in Zwitscher-Maschine, Journal on Paul Klee, no. 8, Bern, Spring 2020, p. 78 (illustrated).





Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee, March - April 1928, no. 49, p. 12 (titled 'Aquarelle').

Dessau, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Paul Klee - Aquarelle aus Zehn Jahren 1920-1929, October - November 1929, no. 62.

Dessau, Staatliches Bauhaus, 10 Jahre Bauhaus, 1920 bis 1930, January - February 1930; this exhibition later travelled to Essen, Museum Folkwang, Febrary - April 1930, Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, May - June 1930, and Zurich, Kunstgewerbemuseum, July - August 1930.

Dessau, Staatliches Bauhaus Dessau, Aquarelle, April - May 1931.

Basel, Galerie Bettie Thommen, Paul Klee, September - October 1942.

Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee, Paul Klee, Sonderklasse, Unverkäuflich, October 2014 - February 2015, no. 183, p. 365 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste, March - May 2015, no. 183 (illustrated).

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paul Klee, L'ironie à l'œuvre, April - August 2016, pp. 146 & 304 (illustrated p. 146).

Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, Paul Klee, Konstruktion des Geheimnisses, March - June 2018, no. 82, p. 435 (illustrated p. 317).
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