LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil transfer, gouache and watercolor on gesso-prepared paper mounted by the artist on painted card
Size Notes:
25.2 x 35
Description:
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Markings:
signed 'Klee'
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 Br, 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, Muse d'art et d'histoire, Berggruen Collection, June-October 1988, p. 116, no. 42 (illustrated in color, p. 117). Kunsthalle Tbingen and London, Tate Gallery, Paul Klee: Die Sammlung Berggruen im Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York und im Muse National dArt Moderne, Paris, January-August 1989 (illustrated in color).
Literature:
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee 1923-1924 in Der Cicerone
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.