Name: PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Brand: Unten durchschlüpfend (Slipping through below)
Price: 50000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Unten durchschlüpfend (Slipping through below)
signed 'Klee' (upper right)
pen and ink and watercolour on paper
12 x 18¹⁄₄ in. (30.8 x 46.2 cm.)
Executed in 1928

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

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 5, 1927-1930, Bonn, 2001, no. 4671, p. 236 (illustrated).

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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‘The creative impulse suddenly springs to life, like a flame, passes through the hand onto the canvas, where it spreads further until, like the spark that closes an electric circuit, it return to its source: the eye and the mind.’
(P. Klee, quoted in W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, London, 1951, p. 99)