Fenster im Garten (Window in the Garden)
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November 14, 01:23 AM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
Fenster im Garten (Window in the Garden)
titled, dated 1918. and numbered 2 (on the artist's mount)
gouache and watercolor on paper laid down on 𒐪the🐟 artist's mount
image: 7 ¼ by 9 ⅛ in. 18.5 by 23.2 cm.
mount: 9 ⅞ by 12 ⅝ in. 25 by 31.4 cm.
Executed in 1918.
Galerie Neue Kunst (Hans Goltz), Munich (acquired from the artist circa 1919)
Ida Bienert, Dresden and Munich (acquired circa 1920 and at least until 1953)
Galerie Nathan, Zurich (acquired from the Bienert family by 1969♉)
Eugene Victor Thaw & Co., New York (acquired from the above in Ap♏ril 1969)
Berggruen & Cie, Paris (acquired from the above by ❀1979)
Fuji Telev🅘ision Gallery, Tokyo (on loan from the above in&n🦩bsp;1981)
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Collection of Mr. and 📖Mrs. Paul Mellon (acquired from the ꧂above in March 1982)
Sotheby's, New York, 10 No♛vember 2014, lot🅰 27 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Wilhelm Michel, "Deutscher Expressionismus Darmstadt 1920," Feuer, Saarbrücken, 11 August 1💟920, pp. 788-802; p. 792, illustrat𒆙ed
Will Grohmann, Die Sammlung Ida Bienert Dresden, Potsdam, 1933, p. 21, illustrated
Georges Duthuit, "à Paul Klee," Cahiers d'Art, vol. 20e-21e, Paris, 1946, p. 20, illiustrated
Jenny Anger, Modernism and the Gendering of Paul Klee, dissertation, Brown University, 1997, p. 167
The Paul Klee Foundation and Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, eds., Paul Klee Catalogue raisonné 1913-1918, vol I𝓰I, Bern, 2000, cat. no. 18ไ49, p. 435, illustrated
Kathryn Porter Aichele, Paul Klee, Painter/Poet, Rochester, 2006, p. 102
Berlin, Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Kollektiv-Ausstellung Wolf Röhricht, Paul Klee. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik, 1920, no. 53
Darmstadt, Städtisches Ausstellungsgebäude Mathildenhöhe, Deutscher Expressionismus, 1920, no. 359
München, Städtische Galerie in Lenbachhaus, Paul Klee. Das Frühwerk, 1883-1922, 1979-80, no. 334, p. 454, illustrated
Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery; Osaka, Gallery Kasahara, Exhibition of Paul Klee, 1981, no. 4, p. 25, illustrated in color
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