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Besser ins Wasser
Details
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Besser ins Wasser
signed 'Klee' (upper left); dated, numbered and titled '1939 CD 2 besser ins Wasser' (on the artist's mount)
red chalk on toned paper mounted on card
Sheet size: 8 1/8 x 13¾ in. (21 x 35 cm.) (irregular)
Mount size: 12 7/8 x 19 5/8 in. (32.8 x 50 cm.)
Executed in 1939
Besser ins Wasser
signed 'Klee' (upper left); dated, numbered and titled '1939 CD 2 besser ins Wasser' (on the artist's mount)
red chalk on toned paper mounted on card
Sheet size: 8 1/8 x 13¾ in. (21 x 35 cm.) (irregular)
Mount size: 12 7/8 x 19 5/8 in. (32.8 x 50 cm.)
Executed in 1939
Provenance
Werner Allenbach, Bern.
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne.
Weintraub Gallery, New York (1959).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, 1993.
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne.
Weintraub Gallery, New York (1959).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, 1993.
Literature
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, Bonn, 2004, vol. 8, p. 446, no. 8708 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, New Art Center Gallery, Paul Klee, Drawings and Watercolors, January-February 1960, no. 26.