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Paul Klee

Münchenbuchsee 1879 – 1940 Muralto near Locarno

”Kleine Schweizerlandschaft”. 1920

Watercolour on letterhead paper, cut by the artist, newly combined and edged in pen in black, on cardboard. 11,8 × 13,6 cm (19,5 × 21,2 cm) (4 ⅝ × 5 ⅜ in. (7 ⅝ × 8 ⅜ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Paul Klee. ”Kleine Schweizerlandschaft”. 1920.

Estimate:

EUR 80,000

 

- 120,000

USD 77,700

 

- 117,000

Sold for:

125,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Winter Auctions 2022

Selected Works, Thursday, 01.12.2022

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Watercolour on letterhead paper, cut by the artist, newly combined and edged in pen in black, on cardboard. 11,8 × 13,6 cm (19,5 × 21,2 cm) (4 ⅝ × 5 ⅜ in. (7 ⅝ × 8 ⅜ in.)). Signed upper left: Klee. Below the image, in pen in black with the work number on the left and titled and inscribed on the right: 1920 157 [below this in pencil:] I Kleine Schweizerlandschaft x. Catalogue raisonné: Paul-Klee-Stiftung 2502. Framed

Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery; Curt Valentin Gallery), Berlin/New York / G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh (?) / Frederick Zimmermann, New York (died 1967) / Private Collection, Germany (presumably as a gift from F. Zimmermann, thence by descent to the present owner)

Alice Bailly, Sektion Aargau der Gesellschaft schweizerischer Maler, Bildhauer and Architekten, Fritz Osswald, Paul Klee, A. Stockmann. Bern, Kunsthalle, 1921, cat. no. 234

Exh. cat.: Paul Klee. Im Zeichen der Teilung. Die Geschichte zerschnittener Kunst Paul Klees 1883–1940. Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, 1995, p. 369, no. 13 (not exhibited)

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