Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from an Important European Collection
Paul Klee
Milderung (Softening)
Auction Closed
June 29, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important European Collection
Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
Milderung (Softening)
signed Klee (lower centre)
watercolour on primed burlap
60 by 38.5cm., 23⅝ by 15⅛in.
Painted in 1938.
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重要歐洲收藏
保羅・克利
1879 - 1940年
《軟化》
款識：藝術家簽名 Klee（中下）
水彩及經打底粗麻布
60 x 38.5 公分；23 ⅝ x 15 ⅛ 英寸
1938年作
Lily Klee, Bern (inherited from the artist in 1940)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946)
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired from the above in 1947)
Clifford Odets, New York & Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1947)
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York
George David Thompson, Pittsburgh
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in 1960)
Galleria Foscherari, Bologna (acquired from the above in 1971)
Private Collection, Italy
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Private Collection (acquired by 1985)
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005
Anonymous, 'Paul Klee and Sculptors', in The New Yorker, 1st May 1948
Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy (ed.), Franz Marc Museum, Werke, Cologne, 2008, illustrated in colour p. 239
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, 1934-1938, Bern, 2003, vol. VII, no. 7403, illustrated p. 421