Paul Klee

Vogelsam̄Lung I "Drei Exempl."

Auction Closed

November 17, 10:26 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Oregon

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

Vogelsam̄Lung I "Drei Exempl."

signed Klee (upper left); titled and dated 1915-189 (on the mount)

watercolor on chalk ground on paper mounted on cardboard

image size: 5 by 4¼ in. (12.8 by 11 cm.)

mount size: 5½ by 4⅝ in. (14.1 by 11.7 cm.)

Executed in 1915.

Please note there is updated provenance for this lot.

Dr. Hermann Julius Probst (acquired in May 1916)

Galerie Ferdinand Moeller, Cologne

Kunstkabinett Stuttgart, 28 October 1949, lot 1580 (consigned by the above)

Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart (acquired from the above)

Trude & Max Victor, New York (acquired in the 1950s)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Wolfgang Kersten & Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee. Im Zeichen der Tellung, Dusseldorf & Stuttgart, 1995, p. 18
Paul Klee Stiftung, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné 1934-1938, vol. II, Bern, 2003, no. 1523, p. 303, illustrated