Paul Klee
Touristen (Tourists)
Session begins in
March 5, 02:30 PM GMT
Estimate
45,000 - 55,000 GBP
Bid
30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
Touristen (Tourists)
signed Klee (upper left); titled, dated 1937 and numbered 17 (on the mount)
charcoal, watercolour and brush and ink on paper mounted on artist's mount
image: 32.8 by 22.9 cm. 12⅞ by 9 in.
mount: 49.5 by 34.9 cm. 19½ by 13¾ in.
framed: 58.3 by 42.4 cm. 23 by 16⅝ in.
Executed in 1937.
Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the artist in 1940)
Klee Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946)
Curt Valentin, Berlin/New York (from 1950)
Gallery Schlesinger, New York
Gallery Shary Grossman, New York (until 1997)
Galerie Giana Sistu, Paris
Private Collection, Switzerland
Acquired from the above in 2011 by the present owner
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Ausstellung Paul Klee. Neue Werke, 1940, no. 12, p. 3
The Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné 1934-1938, vol. 7, London, 2003, no. 6953, p. 221, illustrated
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