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Property from an Important Private Collection

Paul Klee

Schema eines Kampfes (Diagram of a Fight)

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June 25, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Bid

35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940


Schema eines Kampfes (Diagram of a Fight)

signed Klee (lower right); dated 1939, titled and inscribed CD 12 (on the mount)

chalk, pencil and pastel on paper mounted on artist's mount

sheet: 27.3 by 27.4 cm. 10⅗ by 10⅔ in.

mount: 48.9 by 64.9 cm. 19¼ by 25½ in.

framed: 54 by 70.4 cm. 21¼ by 27¾ in.

Executed in 1939.

Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the artist in 1940)

Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946)

Felix Klee, Bern (acquired from the above in 1953)

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1990)

David Zwirner Gallery, London

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 2021)

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2025

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Paul Klee. Neue Werke, 1940, no. 131, p. 8

Bern, Kunsthalle, Gedӓchtnisausstellung Paul Klee, 1940, no. 162

Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum; Mannheim, Kunsthalle and Freiburg, Kunstverein, Spӓte Werke von Paul Klee, Leihgaben der Paul-Klee-Gesellschaft, 1948-49, no. 17, p. 2

St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum, Klee. Werke aus dem Familienbesitz, 1955, no. 360

Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Paul Klee. Die Ordnung der Dinge, 1975, no. 77, p. 54, illustrated

Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, Paul Klee. Das Spӓtwerk 1937-1940, 1979, no. 109

Paris, Galerie Karl Flinker, Paul Klee les dix dernières années, 1985, no. 30, n.p., illustrated in colour

Chur, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee. Spӓtwerke 1937-1940, 1986, no. 94, pl. 79, n.p., illustrated in colour

Kiel, Kunsthalle , Im Gleichgewicht – Paul Klee und die Moderne, 1987, no. 36, p. 93

Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein and Emden, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee. Spӓtwerk. Arbeiten auf Papier 1937-1939, 1990-91, no. 333, p. 505, illustrated in colour

New York, David Zwirner, Paul Klee: 1939, 2019, pp. 67-69, illustrated in colour

Jürg Spiller, Paul Klee. Unendliche Naturgeschichte, vol.II, Basel, 1970, p. 394, illustrated

Exh.Cat., Bonn, Kunstmuseum and Bern, Kunstmuseum, Die Ordnung der Farbe. Paul Klee, August Macke und ihre Malerfreunde, 2000-01, p. 40, illustrated

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 8, Bern, 2004, no. 8718, p. 449, illustrated