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Paul Klee

Festtag im Winter (Winter Holiday)

Session begins in

March 5, 02:30 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Bid

48,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940


Festtag im Winter (Winter Holiday)

signed Klee (lower left); titled, dated 1927., and numbered Ue4. (on the mount)

watercolour and pen and ink on paper mounted on artist's mount

image: 14.5 by 29.6 cm. 5¾ by 11⅝ in.

mount: 26.7 by 45.9 cm. 10½ by 18⅛ in.

framed: 41 by 55.8 cm. 16⅛ by 22 in.

Executed in 1927.

Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the artist in 1940)

Klee Society, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946 and until 1952)

Felix Klee, Bern (acquired from the above in 1953 and until at least 1972)

Evi Grosch, Princeton (until 1985)

Serge Sabarsky, New York (acquired from the above in 1985)

Achim Moeller Replica Handbags , New York

Sotheby's, New York, 2 May 1996, lot 218

Gallery Wienerroither & Kohlbacher, Vienna

Private Collection, Switserland

Acquired from the above in 2011 by the present owner

St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum, Klee. Werke aus dem Familienbesitz, 1955, no. 103

Montreux, Galerie d'art ancien, Paul Klee, 1957, no. 74-19

Bristol, City Art Gallery; Leeds, City Art Gallery; York, Art Gallery; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery; Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery; Glasgow, Art Gallery and Museum; London, Arts Council Gallery and Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Drawings and Watercolours by Paul Klee from the Felix Klee Collection Berne, 1963, no. 217, p. 32

Ascona, Galleria Castelnuovo, Trudy Neuburg-Coray, Paul Klee. Öl, Aquarell, Zeichnungen. Werke 1910-1940, 1964, no. 39

Nürnberg, Fränkische Galerie, Paul Klee. Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, 1966, no. 35, illustrated

Mailand, Galleria del Milione, Paul Klee, 1968-69, no. 26, illustrated

Tübingen, Kunstverein im Technischen Rathaus, Paul Klee. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen aus der Familiensammlung Felix Klee - Bern, 1970, no. 9

Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee und seine Malerfreunde. Die Sammlung Felix Klee, 1971, no. 110

Lugano, Museo civico di belle arti, Villa Ciani, Paul Klee. Collezione di Felix Paul Klee, Berna, 1972, no. 66

Villingen-Schwenningen, Beethovenhaus, Paul Klee 1879 - 1940. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, 1973, no. 43

Braunschweig, Junior Galerie, Paul Klee. Bilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen. Sammlung Felix Klee, 1975-76, no. 49, p. 53

Tokyo, Odakyu Department Store; Takasaki, Gumma Museum; Nagoya, Matsuzakaya Department Store; Kobe, Sogo Department Store and Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Paul Klee und seine Malerfreunde, 1976, no. 70

London, Fischer Replica Handbags , Paul Klee 1879-1940. An exhibition to commemorate the centenary of the artist's birth, 1979, no. 20, p. 8

Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Paul Klee: Sammlung Felix Klee, 1980, no. 76, p. 155, illustrated

Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Paul Klee (1879-1940). Innere Wege, 1981-82, no. 114, p. 271

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné 1927-1930, vol. 5, London, 2001, no. 4498, p. 156, illustrated