Paul Klee

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

Seiltänzer, from Kunst der Gegenwart

signed in pencil and inscribed with the work number 23 138

lithograph printed in pink and black on tissue-thin Japan paper

image: 438 by 270 mm. 17¼ by 10⅝ in.

sheet: 523 by 374 mm. 20⅝ by 14¾ in.

Executed in 1923; this impression of Kornfeld’s state IV.b (of IV.c) is one of 80 examples on tissue-thin Japan paper (there is also an edition of 220 on laid paper), printed by Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar, published by Verlag der Marées-Gesellshaft, R. Piper & Co., Münich.