Beyond the Brushstroke: The Sam & Marilyn Fox Collection
Paul Klee
Miniatüre Oben u Unten Schwarz Gefasst (Miniature Framed Black at Top and Bottom)
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Beyond the Brushstroke: The Sam & Marilyn Fox Collection
Paul Klee
(1879 - 1940)
Miniatüre Oben u Unten Schwarz Gefasst (Miniature Framed Black at Top and Bottom)
signed Klee (lower left); dated 1917 and numbered 64 (on the artist’s mount)
watercolor and pen and ink and pencil on paper on the artist's mount
image: 8 by 5 ¾ in. 20.2 by 14.5 cm.
mount: 11 ⅞ by 8 in. 30 by 20.3 cm.
Executed in 1917.
Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin (acquired directly from the artist in 1917)
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 5 June 1972, lot 812
Galerie Tarica, Paris
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in the early 1970s)
Sotheby's, London 24 June 1996, lot 44 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Paul Klee. Gösta Adrian-Nilsson. Gabrielle Münter, 1917, no. 20
Dresden, Galerie Ernst Arnold, Expressionistische Ausstellung. Der Sturm, Expressionisten, Futuristen, Kubisten, 1919, no. 155
Stuttgart, Kunstgebäude, Der Sturm und Üecht-Gruppe, II, Herbstschau Neuer Kunst, 1920
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan Vital oder das Auge des Eros, 1994-95, no. 293, p. 557 (titled Miniatur)
Max Bill, "Paul Klee," Das Werk, vol. XXVII, no. 8, August 1940, p. 210, fig. 2, illustrated (titled Miniature, schwarz, gefasst)
Wolfgang Kersten, Paul Klee „Zerstörung, der Konstruktion zuliebe?“, Marburg, 1987, p. 50
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2, London and New York, 2000, no. 1748, p. 401, illustrated
You May Also Like
