LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.98 in. (66.00 cm.) (height) by 22.05 in. (56.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Klee' (upper left); titled 'Tänzerin' (on the stretcher)

Exhibited:

Wuppertal, Kunst-und Museumsverein, Sammlung Sir Edward und Lady Hulton, London, no. 97; this exhibition later travelled to Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, November 1964 - January 1965; Frankfurt, Kunstverein; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall. Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung Sir Edward und Lady Hulton, London, December 1967 - January 1968, no. 99. Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Klee. 'Kunst ist ein Schöpfungsgleichnis', September - November 1973, no. 62 (illustrated). Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Paul Klee, July - September 1977, no. 102 (illustrated). Cologne, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee. Das Werk der Jahre 1919-1933. Gemälde, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik, April - June 1979, no. 355 (illustrated). Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Künster um Palucca, May - August 1987, no. 85. Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan Vital oder das Auge des Eros, May - August 1994, no. 365 (illustrated).

Literature:

W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Stuttgart, 1954, p. 281. M. Brion, Klee, Paris, 1955 (illustrated). G. di San Lazzaro, Klee. La vie et l'oeuvre, Paris, 1957 (illustrated). F.C. Schang, Paul Klee (1879-1940). Collection of F.C. Schang, New York, 1957, no. 34. J. Glaesemer, Paul Klee. Handzeichnungen II, Bern, 1984, p. 2 (illustrated). The Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. 6, 1931-1933, Bern, 2002, no. 5967, p. 276 (illustrated, as '1932,271 (X 11)').

Provenance:

Lily Klee, Bern, 1940 to 1946. Klee Gesellschaft, Bern, 1946 to 1948. Curt Valentin, Berlin & New York, by 1948. Klaus Perls, New York, by 1954. Saidenberg Gallery, Inc., New York, 1954 to 1955. Frederick C. Schang, South Norwalk & New York, 1955 to 1958. Berggruen & Cie, Paris, 1958 to 1959. Herbert Einstein, London, by 1959. Sir Edward and Lady Nika Hulton, London, by 1964. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by 1973 and again in 1979. Kurt Delbanco, London & New York, after 1979. Galerie Beyeler, Basel. Acquired from the above by the present owner.