LOT DETAILS
Materials:
pen and ink and red chalk on paper laid down on the artist's mount
Size Notes:
image; artist's mount: 23.4 x 22.4 cm
Markings:
signed 'Klee' (lower right), dated, numbered and inscribed '1913 76 Leda und d. Schwan' (on the artist's mount)
Exhibited:
Wuppertal, Kunst- und Museumsverein, Paul Klee, Werke aus den Jahren 1904 bis 1940, January - February 1956, no. 4. Munich, Haus der Kunst, Paul Klee: In der Maske des Mythos, October 1999 - January 2000, no. 17, illustrated; this exhibition later travelled to Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, February - May 2000.
Literature:
C. Kröll, Die Bildtitel Paul Klees: Eine Studie zur Beziehung von Bild und Sprache in der Kunst des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, 1968, p.33. P. Kort, The Ugly Face of Beauty: Paul Klee's Images of Aphrodite, Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994, pp. 53 & 106. A.-K. Günzel, 'Mythologisches Glossar', in exh. cat., Paul Klee: In der Maske des Mythos, Cologne, 1999, p. 276 (illustrated). The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, 1913-1918, Bern, 2000, no. 978, p. 75 (illustrated).
Provenance:
Pfister collection, Munich; sale, Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 7-9 November 1951, lot 1615. Karl Julius Anselmino, Wuppertal, by whom acquired at the above sale. Acquired from the above by the present owner.