LOT DETAILS
Materials:
watercolor on chalk ground paper bordered with strips of silver paper tapelaid down on the artist's mount
Size Notes:
6 x 10
Description:
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Exhibited:
Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Paul Klee, Johannes Molzahn, Kurt Schwitters, 1919, no. 16; Munich, Galeriestrasse 26, Mnchener Neue-Secession. V., 1919, no. 83; Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Neues Museum, Neue Kunst Hans Goltz Mnchen: Kollektionen Hans Vlcker, Otto Ritschl, 1920, no. 70; Paris, Berggruen & Cie, Paul Klee: Aquarelles et Dessins, 1953, n.p., illustrated in color; Ithaca, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, The David M. Solinger Collection: Masterworks of Twentieth-Century Art, 2002-03, p. 85, illustrated in color
Literature:
Marcel Brion, Paul Klee, Paris, 1955, no. 12, illustrated (titled Pierre Commmorative pour N.); Carola Mller, Das Zeichen in Bild und Theorie bei Paul Klee, Ph.D. dissertation, Technische Universitt Mnchen, Munich, 1979, p. 48; Wolfgang Kersten and Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee, Stuttgart, 1995, fig. 15, p. 62, illustrated; Jenny Anger, Modernism and the Gendering of Paul Klee, Ph.D.dissertation, Brown University, Providence, 1997, p. 109 (titled Memorial to N); Josef Helfenstein and Christian Rmelin, eds., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonn, vol. II, London and New York, 2000, no. 1927, p. 485, illustrated; p. 472, illustrated in color; Exh. Cat., Kyoto,National Museum of Modern Art and Tokyo,National Museum of Modern Art,Paul Klee: Art in the Making 1883-1940, 2011,p. 86, illustrated; Brigitte Uhde-Stahl,Paul Klees geheime Symbolik, Berlin, 2018, pp. 196, 219, 283, 294; p. 244, illustrated in color
Provenance:
Galerie Neue KunstHans Goltz, Munich (acquired from the artist in 1919 and until at least 1920); Collection Thorn; Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 27 April 1951, lot 1916 (consigned by the above); Galerie d'Art Moderne Marie-Suzanne Feigel, Basel (acquired at the above sale); Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 29 May 1952, lot 1996(consigned by the above); CollectionKlitzke (acquired at the above sale); Berggruen & Cie, Paris; Theodore Schempp,Paris and New York (acquired from the above in 1953); Acquired from the above in 1954 by the present owner