Paul Klee

Lichtbreitung II (Light-Broadening II)

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June 30, 11:48 AM GMT

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80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private European Collection

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

Lichtbreitung II (Light-Broadening II)

signed Klee (lower right)

watercolour and pencil on paper laid down on card

Image: 24.2 by 13.5cm., 9½ by 5¼in.

Framed: 41.2 by 29.8cm., 16¼ by 11¾in.

Executed in 1929.

Richard Doetsch-Benzinger, Basel
The Estate of Richard Doetsch-Benzinger, Basel (by descent from the above in 1958) Galerie Liatowitsch, Basel (possibly on commission from the above)
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in 1971

Leopold Zahn, Paul Klee, Im Lande Edelstein, Baden-Baden, 1952, illustrated in colour Margit Bosshard-Rebmann, Paul Klee, Basel, 1953, no. 48
Georg Schmidt, Robert Schenk (eds.), Kunst und Naturform. Form in art and nature. Art et nature, 2nd edition, Basel, 1960, illustrated in colour p. 107
Joachim Büchner, 'Zu den Gemälden und Aquarellen von Paul Klee im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum', in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, 1962, vol. 14, pp. 359-374
Paul Klee. Im Zeichen der Teilung, (exhibition catalogue), Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen & Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, 1995, illustrated p. 358
César Paternosto, Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm, Brussels, 2001, illustrated p. 72
Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee. Catalogue raisonné 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, vol. 5, no. 4999, illustrated p. 373

Basel, Galerie d'Art Moderne, Marie-Suzanne Feigel, Paul Klee, Tafelbilder und Aquarelle aus Preivatbesitz, 1949, no. 32
Basel, Kunstmuseum, Sammlung Richard Doetsch-Benziger, Malerei, Zeichnung und Plastik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, 1956, no. 182, illustrated in the catalogue Basel, Galerie Liatowitsch, Aus der Sammlung Doetsch-Benziger, 1971

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