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PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Kinder-Fries
Details
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Kinder-Fries
signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, numbered and titled '1938 A 6 Kinder-Fries' (on the artist's mount)
pastel on cotton laid down on paper mounted on card
Image size: 3 1/8 x 12½ in. (8 x 32 cm.)
Sheet size: 3¾ x 13 1/8 in. (9.5 x 33.4 cm.).
Mount size: 6 7/8 x 16¼ in. (17.5 x 41.2 cm.)
Executed in 1938
Kinder-Fries
signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, numbered and titled '1938 A 6 Kinder-Fries' (on the artist's mount)
pastel on cotton laid down on paper mounted on card
Image size: 3 1/8 x 12½ in. (8 x 32 cm.)
Sheet size: 3¾ x 13 1/8 in. (9.5 x 33.4 cm.).
Mount size: 6 7/8 x 16¼ in. (17.5 x 41.2 cm.)
Executed in 1938
Provenance
Lily Klee, Bern (1940-1946).
Klee Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-1947).
Richard Doetsch-Benziger, Basel (1947).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (by 1970).
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Klee Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-1947).
Richard Doetsch-Benziger, Basel (1947).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (by 1970).
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Literature
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, Bonn, 2003, vol. 7, p. 502, no. 7648 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Paul Klee, Ein Kind träumt sich, December-January 1979, no. 207.