The Artist’s Sketchbook: Where Inspiration Finds Form
The Artist’s Sketchbook: Where Inspiration Finds Form
Property from the Collection of Albin Schram, Switzerland
PAUL KLEE | DREI TIERGROTESKEN (THREE ANIMAL GROTESQUERIES) A) BÄR UND SCHAF (BEAR AND SHEEP) B) GOCKEL GEDRÜCKT (DEPRESSED COCKEREL) C) GOCKEL VERGNÜGT (AMUSED COCKEREL)
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June 4, 01:27 PM GMT
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10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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PAUL KLEE
1879 - 1940
DREI TIERGROTESKEN (THREE ANIMAL GROTESQUERIES)
A) BÄR UND SCHAF (BEAR AND SHEEP) B) GOCKEL GEDRÜCKT (DEPRESSED COCKEREL) C) GOCKEL VERGNÜGT (AMUSED COCKEREL)
image a): signed, Klee (upper left), inscribed Bär Schaf (lower left); image b): signed Kl (upper right), inscribed Gockel (lower left); image c): Klee (upper right), inscribed Gockel (lower left); inscribed drei Tiergrotesken, dated 1912 and numbered 125 on the artist’s mount
pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist’s mount
image: a) 16 by 9.5 cm., 6¼by 3¾in.; b) 6 by 8 cm., 2⅜ by 3⅛in.; c) 11.5 by 10.5 cm., 4½ by 4⅛in.
mount: 25 by 33 cm., 9⅞ by 13 in.
Executed in 1912.
This work is sold unframed
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Sam Francis, California (until 1967)
Sale: Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 14th-17th June 1967, no. 713
Collection Albin Schram, Switzerland (purchased at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owners
The Paul Klee Foundation & Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, eds., Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, 1883-1912, vol. I, Bern, 1998, no. 838, illustrated p. 468 (with a cropped image)