Contemporary Art | Milan
Contemporary Art | Milan
Paul Klee
LANDSCHAFT B. L.
Lot Closed
November 27, 03:39 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
PAUL KLEE
1879 - 1940
LANDSCHAFT B. L.
signed
watercolour on chalk primed paper laid on card
Executed in 1931
(firmato
acquerello su carta gessata applicata su cartoncino
Eseguito nel 1931)
cm 21x33,5; inches 8.27 by 13.19
Framed: cm 48,3x61,5x4,3; inches 19.01 by 24.21 by 1.69
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Estate of Richard Doetsch-Benziger, Basel
Stuttgart, Kunstkabinett, 20-21 May 1960, lot 292
Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d'Italia
Galleria Narciso, Turin
Private collection, Turin
Acquired from the above by the present owner (Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario)
Roman Norbert Ketterer, Moderne Kunst III, Gemalde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Campione d'Italia, 1966, n. 107, illustrated in colour
Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 6, Bern, 2002, n. 5575, illustrated p. 121
"Only abstraction of the transitory remained. The world was my subject, even though it was not the visible world. Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that, here, the time element becomes the spatial element".
(Paul Klee, On Modern Art, London & Boston, 1979, n.p.)
“Solo l’astrazione del transitorio rimase. Il mondo era il mio soggetto, anche se non era il mondo visibile. La pittura polifonica è superiore della musica in quanto, qui, l’elemento del tempo diventa l’elemento dello spazio”
(Paul Klee, On Modern Art, London & Boston, 1979, n.p.)