LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolour on burlap laid down on the artist's mount

Size Notes:

image: 8 x 10 1?4 in. (20.3 x 26.1 cm.) artist's mount: 11 1?8 x 12 3?4 in. (28.3 x 32.4 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Ausstellung Neuerer deutscher Kunst aus Berliner Privatbesitz, April 1928, no. 71, p. 27 (titled 'Kleines Bild'). Bern, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee Ausstellung in Verbindung mit der Paul-Klee-Stiftung, August-November 1956, no. 418, p. 69. Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, December 1956-January 1957, no. 82. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Klee: A Retrospective Exhibition, February-July 1967, no. 32, p. 35 (illustrated; titled 'Two Little Pleasure Castles'). New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Der Blaue Reiter und eins Kreis, March-May 1977, no. 33, p. 48 (illustrated; titled 'Zwei Kleine Lustschlösschen').

Literature:

C. Bell, Kunst, Dresden, 1922, p. 176 (illustrated). S. Cheney, A Primer of Modern Art, New York, 1932, p. 172 (illustrated p. 171). W. Haftmann, C. Giedion-Welcker, W. Grohmann, W. Schmalenbach & G. Schmidt, Im Zwischenreich: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen von Paul Klee, Cologne, 1957, p. 18 (illustrated p. 36). The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1913-1918, Bonn, vol. 2, 1998, no. 1967, p. 497 (illustrated; catalouged as 'signed 'Klee' (upper right)).

Provenance:

Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich, by 1922. Paul Westheim, Berlin, by 1928. Dr. Charlotte Weidler, Berlin & New York. Acquired from the above by the late owner, circa 1978.