Lot 8
Lot 8
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

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Price Realised GBP 62,500
Estimate
GBP 50,000 - GBP 70,000
Closed: 1 Jul 2020
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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Unten durchschlüpfend (Slipping through below)

Price Realised GBP 62,500
Closed: 1 Jul 2020
Price Realised GBP 62,500
Closed: 1 Jul 2020
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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
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signed 'Klee' (upper right)
pen and ink and watercolour on paper
12 x 1814 in. (30.8 x 46.2 cm.)
Executed in 1928
Provenance
Rudolf Probst [Galerie Neue Kunst Fides; Das Kunsthaus], Dresden & Mannheim, until 1930.
Roland Balaÿ & Louis Carré, Paris.
Jean & Geneviève Masurel, Roubaix.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by whom acquired in 1972 and until 1985.
Anonymous sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 7 June 1985, lot 825.
Günther & Sophie Franke [Galerie Günther Franke], Munich.
Acquired by the present owner circa 1990
Literature
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 5, 1927-1930, Bonn, 2001, no. 4671, p. 236 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Roland Balaÿ et Louis Carré, Paul Klee: Tableaux et aquarelles de 1917 à 1937, July 1938, no. 11 (illustrated).
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Klee: Kunst ist ein Schöpfungsgleichnis, September - November 1973, no. 43.
Paris, Galerie Karl Flinker, Klee: 74 œuvres de 1908 à 1940, March - May 1974, no. 34.
Munich, Galerie Günther Franke, Paul Klee, June - July 1975, no. 31.
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Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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