Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from an Important Private Collection

Paul Klee

Vogelkomoedie (Bird comedy)

Auction Closed

June 29, 07:06 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

Vogelkomoedie (Bird comedy)


indistinctly signed Klee, dated 1919 and numbered 61 (upper right)

gouache on silk

25.4 by 35cm., 10 by 13¾in.

Executed in 1919.


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重要私人收藏

保羅・克利

1879 - 1940年

《雀鳥喜劇》


款識:藝術家隱約簽名 Klee、紀年1919 並標記61(右上)

水粉絹本

25.4 x 35 公分;10 x 13 ¾ 英寸

1919年作

Dr Wilhelm Mayer, Munich (acquired from the artist in April 1919)
Erich & Siddi Heckel, Berlin (acquired circa 1920)
Private Collection, Europe (by descent from the above in 1977. Sold: Sotheby’s, London, 28th June 1994, lot 37)
Purchased at the above sale

Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, Paris, 1954, no. 123, illustrated p. 137 (titled Wasserv­ögel)

Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, 1919-1922, Bern, 1999, vol. III, no. 2124, illustrated p. 56, illustrated in colour p. 64