Property from a Prestigious European Collection
Paul Klee
Liegende Frau (Woman reclining)
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Prestigious European Collection
Paul Klee
1879-1940
Liegende Frau (Woman reclining)
signed Klee (upper right); dated 1933, numbered M.13 and inscribed Scl IX (lower left on the artist's mount) and titled Liegende Frau (lower right on the artist's mount); inscribed X (on the reverse)
watercolour on paper laid down on cardboard
image: 32,2 x 43 cm; 12⅝ x 16⅞ in.
artist's mount: 49,5 x 64 cm; 19½ x 25¼ in.
Executed in 1933.
Lily Klee, Bern (1940-1946)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (as of 1946)
Galerie Simon [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler], Paris (no. 0973; photo no. 16571)
Tycoon Trust, Ruggell
Christie’s London, 28 June 2001, lot 474
Private collection (acquired at the above sale)
Christie’s London, 25 June 2008, lot 243 (consigned by the above)
Farsetti, Prato, 1 June 2013, lot 580
Private collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Basel, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, 1935, no. 139, p. 10
Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee, Fritz Huf, 1936, no. 112
Stockholm, Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Paul Klee, 1949, no. 27
Paris, L'Adresse Musée de la Poste, Aragon et l'art moderne, 2010, p. 79, illustrated in colour and p. 78
Saint-Louis, Espace d'Art Contemporain Fernet-Branca, Chassé-croisé, Dada-Surréaliste 1916-1969, 2012, p. 16, illustrated in colour
The Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, 1931-1933, vol. 6, Bern, 2002, no. 6098, p. 321, illustrated and 329, illustrated in colour
Georges Sebbag, Memorabilia : constellations inaperçues : Dada & surréalisme, 1916-1970, Paris, 2010, p. 77, illustrated in colour
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