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Paul Klee

Münchenbuchsee 1879 – 1940 Muralto near Locarno

„Das Haus zum blauen Stern“. 1920

Watercolour on plaster priming on linen on paper on cardboard. 17,5 x 12,5 cm (25,4 x 19,2 cm) (6 ⅞ x 4 ⅞ in. (10 x 7 ½ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Paul Klee. „Das Haus zum blauen Stern“. 1920.

Estimate:

EUR 200,000

 

- 300,000

USD 216,000

 

- 323,000

Sold for:

745,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

Van Gogh to Twombly. Selected Works, Thursday, 04.06.2015

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Watercolour on plaster priming on linen on paper on cardboard. 17,5 x 12,5 cm (25,4 x 19,2 cm) (6 ⅞ x 4 ⅞ in. (10 x 7 ½ in.)). Signed upper left: Klee. Below the image on the cardboard in pen in black inscribed with the work number and titled: 1920/136 Haus zum blauen Stern. On the reverse lower right the stamp of Dr. Karl-Gustav Gerold, Bonn. Catalogue raisonné: Paul-Klee-Stiftung 2481.

New Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich (acquired in May 1921 from the artist) / Karl-Gustav Gerold, Dublin/Bonn (thence by descent to the present owner)

Provenance: Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich (sold in im May 1921) / Galerie Günther Franke, Munich / Karl-Gustav Gerold, Dublin/Bonn (purchased in autumn 1942 at Galerie Franke, since then in the property of the family). Additional literature: Karl-Gustav Gerold: Deutsche Malerei unserer Zeit. Munich, Verlag Kurt Desch, 1956, colour plate p. 49

Die Maler at the Bauhaus. Munich, Haus der Kunst, 1950, cat. no. 131

Exhibition catalogue: Paul Klee. Im Zeichen der Teilung. Die Geschichte zerschnittener Kunst Paul Klees 1883–1940. With full documentation. Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, 1995, ill. p. 341 (not exhibited)

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