Property from a Private European Collection
Paul Klee
Blumengarten (Flower Garden)
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
Paul Klee
1880 - 1940
Blumengarten (Flower Garden)
signed Klee (upper right); dated 1932, titled and numbered W 11 (on the artist's mount)
pastel on paper mounted on the artist's mount
image: 46.5 by 30.2 cm. 18 ¼ by 11 ⅞ in.
mount size: 64.7 by 42.4 cm. 25 ½ by 17 in.
Framed: 80 by 67 cm. 31 ½ by 26 ⅜ in.
Executed in 1932.
Lily Klee, Bern (acquired in 1940 and until 1946)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above by 1946)
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired from the above in 1947)
Mrs R. V. Jones, Glenview (acquired from the above in 1951)
Mrs Elsie B. Jones
Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 20 May 1982, (consigned by the above)
Arlene Morgan (acquired from the above sale)
Richard Green, London
Sotheby's, New York, 2 May 1996, lot 209 (consigned by the above)
Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie, Geneva (acquired from the above sale)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent in 2008 to the present owner
New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, Paul Klee. Traces of Memory, 1998, no. 51, p. 69, illustrated
Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie and Basel, Art 28’97, Basel, 1997
Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie, Paul Klee. Traces de la mémoire, 1998-99
Basel, ART 30‘99, 1999, p. 67, illustrated
Vienna, Albertina, Paul Klee. FormenSpiele, 2008, no. 16, p. 211, illustrated
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1931-1933, vol. VI, Bern, 2000, no. 5947, p. 270, illustrated
Marie-Noëlle Bussac, Traité des couleurs, Lausanne, 2001, p. 207, illustrated