ID 846238
Lot 631 | PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Valeur estimée
$ 150 000 – 250 000
Rotbärtiger Kopf
dated, numbered, titled and inscribed 'SCL X 1929 K.7. rotbärtiger Kopf' (on the artist's mount)
watercolor on paper laid down on card
Sheet size: 18 3/8 x 12 7/8 in. (46.7 x 32.7 cm.)
Mount size: 25 7/8 x 18 7/8 in. (65.7 x 48 cm.)
Executed in 1929
Provenance
Lily Klee, Bern (wife of the artist).
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above, 1946).
Werner Allenbach, Bern (1953).
Galerie Berggruen & Cie, Paris (acquired from the above, 1956).
Private collection, New York (acquired from the above, September 1957).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Literature
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Paris, 1929, p. 58 (illustrated).
J.A. Thwaites, "Paul Klee and the Object," Parnassus, vol. 9, no. 6, November 1937, pp. 9-11.
C. Giedion-Welcker, Paul Klee, New York, 1952, p. 104, no. 94 (illustrated).
C. Giedion-Welcker, Paul Klee in Selbstzeugnissen und Bildokumenten, Reinbek, 1961, pp. 130 and 155.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, 1927-1930, Bonn, 2001, vol. 5, p. 273, no. 4773 (illustrated).
W. Kersten, O. Okuda and M. Kakinuma, Paul Klee: Sonderklasse, Unverkäuflich, exh. cat., Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 2014, no. 193, p. 376 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee, October-November 1929, no. 129.
Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, Paul Klee zum 50. Geburtstage: Aquarelle aus den Jahren 1920-1929, February-March 1930, no. 83.
Kunsthalle Bern, Paul Klee, February-March 1935, no. 143.
Kunstverein Winterthur and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Das Graphische Kabinett, Paul Klee, May-August 1935, p. 17, no. 149.
| Artiste: | Paul Klee (1879 - 1940) |
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| Style artistique: | Art moderne |
| Artiste: | Paul Klee (1879 - 1940) |
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| Style artistique: | Art moderne |
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