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Zwei Birnen (Two Pears)
Details
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Zwei Birnen (Two Pears)
signed 'Klee' (upper right); dated, numbered and inscribed '1934 L8 zwei Birnen' (on the artist's mount)
pencil and coloured pencil on muslin, attached to the artist's mount
sheet: 7 7/8 x 10 in. (20 x 25.5 cm.)
artist's mount: 10 7/8 x 12 1/2 in. (27.7 x 31.9 cm.)
Executed in 1934
Zwei Birnen (Two Pears)
signed 'Klee' (upper right); dated, numbered and inscribed '1934 L8 zwei Birnen' (on the artist's mount)
pencil and coloured pencil on muslin, attached to the artist's mount
sheet: 7 7/8 x 10 in. (20 x 25.5 cm.)
artist's mount: 10 7/8 x 12 1/2 in. (27.7 x 31.9 cm.)
Executed in 1934
Provenance
Otto Ralfs, Braunschweig, 1934.
Lily Klee, Bern, 1940-1946.
Klee Gesellschaft, Bern, from 1946.
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (no. 982).
Kusthandel Lambert Tegenbosch, Heusden aan de Mass (no. 81.49).
Robert Urbye, Oslo, from 1958.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1981, lot 326.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 19 March 1997, lot 46.
Private collection, America, acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, London, 26 June 2002, lot 193.
77 Gallery, Tokyo.
Private collection, Japan, by whom acquired from the above.
Lily Klee, Bern, 1940-1946.
Klee Gesellschaft, Bern, from 1946.
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (no. 982).
Kusthandel Lambert Tegenbosch, Heusden aan de Mass (no. 81.49).
Robert Urbye, Oslo, from 1958.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1981, lot 326.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 19 March 1997, lot 46.
Private collection, America, acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, London, 26 June 2002, lot 193.
77 Gallery, Tokyo.
Private collection, Japan, by whom acquired from the above.
Literature
The Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. 7, 1934-1938, Bern, 2003, no. 6586 (illustrated p. 54).
Exhibited
London, The Mayor Gallery, Drawings by Paul Klee, May 1952, no. 15.
Geneva, Galerie du Perron, Paul Klee, July 1960, no. 14.
Geneva, Galerie du Perron, Paul Klee, July 1960, no. 14.
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