Paul Klee
Versumpfung (Becoming Swampy)
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70,000 - 100,000 EUR
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Paul Klee
1879-1940
Versumpfung (Becoming Swampy)
signed Klee (lower right); inscribed VII (lower left on the artist's mount); dated 1929, inscribed W10 and titled versumpfung (lower center on the artist's mount)
ink and watercolour on paper
sheet: 31,8 x 45,9; 12½ x 18⅛ in.
artist's mount: 38,2 x 52,1 cm; 15 x 20½ in.
Executed in 1929.
Alfred Flechteim, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Paris and London (consigned by the artist in 1929)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris (consigned by the artist up to 1934)
Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf
The Mayor Gallery, London (up to 1934)
Michael Slader, Leeds
Brown & Philipps, London (up to 1944)
Reid & Lefevre, London (1944)
Raymond Mortimer, London (by 1944)
The Redfern Gallery, London (up to 1980)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (1980-1983)
Private collection, Germany
Private collection, Belgium
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechteim, Paul Klee, 1929, no. 142
Düsseldorf, Galerie Alfred Flechteim, Paul Klee, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Graphik aus 25 Jahren, 1930, no. 131
London, The Mayor Gallery, Paul Klee, 1934, no. 17
Leicester, City of Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Contemporary Art, 1936, no. 114
London, New Burlington Galleries, Twentieth Century German Art, 1938, no. 99
London, The Tate Gallery, Paul Klee 1879-1940, 1945-46, no. 134 (titled Becoming Swampy)
The Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 5, 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, no. 4986, p. 369, illustrated