Name: PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Brand: Eroberte Luft
Price: 22000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Eroberte Luft
signed 'Klee' (lower left); dated, numbered and inscribed '1930 R.9. eroberte Luft' (on the artist's mount)
pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount
image: 9¹⁄₄ x 12¹⁄₄ in. (23.7 x 31 cm.)
artist's mount: 13 x 14¹⁄₂ in. (32.8 x 37.1 cm.)
Executed in 1930

Lily Klee (the artist's wife), Bern, by descent from the artist in 1940.
(probably) Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, by whom acquired from the above in 1946.
Hermann & Margrit Rupf, Bern, until 1955.
Berggruen & Cie, Paris, by whom acquired in 1955.
Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich.
Karl Julius Anselmino, Wuppertal.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

W. Grohmann, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen 1921-1930, Potsdam & Berlin, 1934, no. 30.
C. Geelhaar, Paul Klee und das Bauhaus, Cologne, 1972, pp. 159 & 172 (illustrated fig. 126).
M. Rosenthal, 'Paul Klee's "Tightropewalker": An Exercise in Balance', in Arts Magazine, vol. 53, no. 1, September 1978, p. 111.
M. Rosenthal, Paul Klee and the Arrow, Dissertation, The University of Iowa, 1979, pp. 102 & 113 (illustrated).
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. V, 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, no. 5205, p. 465 (illustrated).

Basel, Kunsthalle, Gedächtnisausstellung Paul Klee, February - March 1941, no. 108, p. 16.
Dusseldorf, Galerie Alex Vömel, Zeichnungen von Paul Klee, January 1957, no. 17.
Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, 2. Internationale der Zeichnung, July - September 1967, no. 72.

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