
Property from an Important Private Collection
Schema eines Kampfes (Diagram of a Fight)
Live auction begins on:
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
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