LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gouache and watercolor on paper laid down on the artist's mount; gouache and pen and India ink on the artist's mount

Size Notes:

image; artist's mount: 18.9 x 39.8 cm

Markings:

signed 'Klee' (upper right), dated, numbered and inscribed '1924 226 Mola' (on the artist's mount)

Exhibited:

Dusseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (in association with Galerie Alfred Flechtheim), Paul Klee, June - July 1931, no. 166. New York, Buchholz Gallery, Paul Klee, March - April 1938, no. 20.

Literature:

K. Nierendorf, ed., Paul Klee, Paintings, Watercolors, 1913 to 1939, New York, 1941, no. 4, p. 7 (illustrated). S, Wada, Paul Klee and his Travels, Tokyo, 1979, p.107 (illustrated). M. Franciscono, 'Paul Klees Sizilienurlaub von 1924', in exh. cat., Reisen in den Süden, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997, p. 55. The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, 1923-1926, Bern, 2000, no. 3598, p. 254 (illustrated).

Provenance:

with Alfred Flechtheim, Dusseldorf, from July 1930. with Alex Vömel, Dusseldorf, until at least 1933. with Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris, until 1937. with Curt Valentin [Buchholz Gallery], New York, 1937-1938. Karl Nierendorf, New York, from 1938. Cornelia Mackin, Blue Hill, Maine, and thence by descent. with Roland Browse & Delbanco, by 1972. Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 1984, lot 139. Private collection, Europe, and thence by descent to the present owner.