LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolor and brush and black ink on paper mounted on card

Size Notes:

Sheet size: 18 3?8 x 12 1?4 in. (46.7 x 31 cm.) Mount size: 24 3?4 x 17 7?8 in. (62.8 x 45.5 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art and Oakland Art Gallery, Paintings by Paul Klee, July-October 1935. San Francisco Museum of Art, Paul Klee, January-February 1937. The Art Institute of Chicago, The Nineteenth International Exhibition of Watercolors, April-May 1940, no. 132.

Literature:

W. Grohmann, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen, 1921-1930, Berlin, 1934, no. 124. The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1927-1930, Bonn, 2001, vol. 5, p. 116, no. 4379. J. Gunz, “Hitch Puts a Bird on It: Paul Klee’s Influence on the Master of Suspense," Critical Insights Film: Alfred Hitchcock, D.A. Cunningham, ed., Amenia, 2017, p. 249.

Provenance:

Galka E. Scheyer, Hollywood (by 1933). Acquired by the late owners, circa 1938.