Lot 414
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PAUL KLEE | Blick Aare abwärts bei der Fähre Muri-Belp (View from the Muri-Belp Ferry down the Aare)

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Paul Klee
  • Blick Aare abwärts bei der Fähre Muri-Belp (View from the Muri-Belp Ferry down the Aare)
  • signed Klee and dated 1909 (lower left)
  • pen and ink on paper
  • 22 by 34.5cm., 8 5/8 by 13 3/8 in
  • Executed in 1909.

Provenance

Felix Lewandowsky, Switzerland
Karl Ströher, Darmstadt (acquired by 1952)
Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher, Switzerland (by descent from the above in 1977) 
Thence by descent to the present owner in 2016

Exhibited

Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Kunst unserer Zeit, Privatsammlung Karl Ströher, 1954, no. 105
Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Sammlung Ströher, 1955, no. 121
Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Sammlung Karl Ströher, 2, 1965-66, no. 73, illustrated in the catalogue
Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Bildnerische Ausdrucksformen 1910-1960, Sammlung Karl Ströher, 1970, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue n.p.

Literature

Paul Klee and Felix Klee, Briefe an die Familie, 1893-1940, Cologne, 1979, vol II. p. 729
Erika Pohl, Ursula Ströher & Gerhard Pohl (eds.), Karl Ströher, Sammler und Sammlung, Stuttgart, 1982, no. 296, illustrated p. 292
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné 1883-1912, Bern, 2001, vol. I, no. 452, illustrated p. 306

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount in two places along the upper edge, and floating in the window mount. The sheet is slightly time-stained. All four edges of the sheet are deckled. There are some small, scattered areas of pale discolouration, possibly related to historic restoration of small areas of paper skinning. This work is in overall good condition.
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