LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount

Size Notes:

image; artist's mount: 17.9 x 23.9 cm

Markings:

signed 'Klee' (lower right), dated, numbered and inscribed '1926 F.8.angreifende Pflanzen' (on the artist's mount)

Exhibited:

Wuppertal, Kunst-und Museumsverein, Paul Klee, Werke aus den Jahren 1904 bis 1940, January - February 1956, no. 39.

Literature:

W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Paris, 1929 (illustrated). W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen, 1921-1930, Berlin, 1934, no. 80. S. Takiguchi, 'Paul Klee', in Atelier, vol. 17, no. 4, Tokyo, 1940, pp. 11-16 (illustrated). The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, 1923-1926, Bern, 2000, no. 4110, p. 478 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Berggruen & Cie, Paris; sale, Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 18-20 October 1950, lot 2185. Kunstkabinett Klihm, Munich, by whom acquired at the above sale. Galerie Beyeler, Basel. Karl Julius Anselmino, Wuppertal. Acquired from the above by the present owner.