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Paul Klee

Maske (Mask)

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June 24, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940


Maske (Mask)

signed Klee (lower right); dated 1921, numbered 155 and titled (on the artist’s mount)

watercolour on paper laid down on the artist’s mount

image: 24.2 by 16.7 cm. 9½ by 6¼ in.

mount: 39.8 by 30 cm. 15⅝ by 11¾ in.

Executed in 1921.

Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, Versteigerung der Werke der Meister des Staatlichen Bauhauses, Weimar, 15 December 1921, lot 52 (donated by the artist)

Sebastian Uhlmann (1851-1925), Berlin (acquired by 1924; possibly from the above sale)

Betty Uhlmann (wife of the above), Berlin (acquired by inheritance from the above)

Hans Hildebrandt and Lily Uhlmann Hildebrandt, Stuttgart (acquired by descent from the above)

Rainer Hildebrandt, Berlin (acquired by descent from the above and until at least 1979)

Galerie Art Focus, Zurich

Acquired from the above by the present owner by 1995

Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus Berliner Privatbesitz, 1978, p. 248

Bremen, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Graphisches Kabinett: Hans Hildebrandt und sein Kreis, 1978-79, no. 44, illustrated in colour on the cover

London, Fischer Fine Art, Paul Klee, 1879-1940. An Exhibition to commemorate the centenary of the artist's birth, 1979, no. 14

Jena, Stadtmuseum Göhre, Paul Klee in Jena 1924, 1999, no. 1921-115, pp. 222-3, illustrated in colour

Zurich, Galerie Art Focus, Paul Klee im Kreise seiner Freunde. Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Macke, Marc, Schlemmer und Schwitters, 1999-2000 (no catalogue)

Zurich, Galerie Art Focus, Der Sturm, Herwarth Walden's «Sturm» in Berlin, 2002, pp. 78-9, illustrated in colour (with incorrect dimensions)

Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, Paul Klee BILD Welten, 2005, no. 37, pp. 185 and 65, illustrated in colour

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Das Universum Klee, 2008-09, pp. 354 and 171, illustrated in colour

Paris, Musée de la musique, Paul Klee (1879-1940), Polyphonies, 2011-12, p. 148, illustrated in colour

Hans Hildebrandt, Die Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Potsdam, 1924, p. 421, pl.XXII, illustrated in colour

Ernst H.Gombrich, The Story of Art: with 370 illustrations, New York, 1951, pl. 351, illustrated in colour (dated 1923)

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. 3, Bern, 1999, no. 2706, p. 321, illustrated