LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

18.74 in. (47.60 cm.) (height) by 22.99 in. (58.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, dated and inscribed 'Klee 1927 K.9' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Hollywood, Braxton Gallery (no. 2); San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (no. 24); The Oakland Art Gallery (no. 2); Santa Barbara, The Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery (no. 1); The Arts Club of Chicago (no. 123) and Los Angeles Museum (no. 124), The Blue Four, 1930-1933. Kunstmuseum Luzern, Paul Klee, Fritz Huf, April-June 1936, no. 27. Kunsthalle Bern (no. 22) and Kunsthalle Basel (no. 284), Gedächtnisausstellung Paul Klee, November 1940-March 1941. London, The National Gallery, Paul Klee 1879-1940, December 1945- February 1946, no. 85. Kunstmuseum Bern, Paul Klee. Ausstellung in Verbindung mit der Paul-Klee-Stiftung, September-November 1956, no. 555. Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Présence des Maîtres, June-September 1967, no. 24. Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paul Klee, November 1969- Feburary 1970, no. 81 (illustrated). Munich, Haus der Kunst, Paul Klee 1879-1940, October 1970-January 1971, no. 87 (illustrated). Humlebaek, Louisiana-Museum, Paul Klee. Wassily Kandinsky, October 1971-January 1972, no. 93. New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., March-April 2002 (illustrated in color, pl. 14).

Literature:

W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Stuttgart, 1954, p. 284 (illustrated). J. Spiller, Paul Klee. Das bilderische Denken. Formund Gestaltungslehre, Basel, 1956, p. 72. M. Huggler, Paul Klee. Die Malerei als Blick in den Kosmos, Stuttgart, 1969, p. 105. R. Verdi, "Paul Klee's Fish Magic an Interpretation" in The Burlington Magazine, 1974, pp. 147-155. J. Pierce, Paul Klee and Primitive Art, Ph.D. diss., New York, 1976, pp. 150 and 153. D. Chavalier, Paul Klee, Neue Ergänzte Ausgabe, Munich, 1979, p. 47 (illustrated in color). B. Tower, Klee and Kandinsky in Munich and at the Bauhaus, Ann Arbor, 1981, p. 184 (illustrated, p. 140). R. Verdi, Klee and Nature, London, 1984, p. 184 (illustrated). E.G. Guse, Paul Klee Dialogue with Nature, Munich, 1991, p. 27 (illustrated). J. Anger, Modernism and the Gendering of Paul Klee, Ph.D. diss., Providence, 1997, p. 164. The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, Bern, 2001, vol. 5, p. 43, no. 4232 (illustrated; illustrated in color, p. 57).

Provenance:

Galka E. Scheyer, New York (by 1928). Lily Klee, Bern (1940-1946). Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-1952). Werner Allenbach, Bern (by 1952). Galerie Beyeler, Basel (until 1967). Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich (by 1967). Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden. Private collection, Germany. Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner.