Lot Essay
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern has confirmed that this work is authentic and that it corresponds to no. 1221 currently listed in vol. 2 of the catalogue raisonné.
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Property from a Private California Collection
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Geister im Purgatorium
Details
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Geister im Purgatorium
signed 'Klee' (upper right); dated, numbered and titled '1914 121 Geister im Purgatorium' (on the artist's mount)
pen and black ink on paper laid down on card
Sheet size: 4 x 8 7/8 in. (10.2 x 22.7 cm.)
Mount size: 8 5/8 x 12 7/8 in. (21.8 x 32.9 cm.)
Drawn in 1914
Geister im Purgatorium
signed 'Klee' (upper right); dated, numbered and titled '1914 121 Geister im Purgatorium' (on the artist's mount)
pen and black ink on paper laid down on card
Sheet size: 4 x 8 7/8 in. (10.2 x 22.7 cm.)
Mount size: 8 5/8 x 12 7/8 in. (21.8 x 32.9 cm.)
Drawn in 1914
Provenance
Alfred Kubin, Wernstein am Inn, Austria (gift from the artist, May 1915).
Private collection, Berkeley (circa 1945).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Private collection, Berkeley (circa 1945).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Literature
M. Droste and A. Zweite, eds., Paul Klee, Das Frühwerk, 1883-1922, exh. cat., Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1979, pp. 78-79.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, 1913-1918, Bonn, 2000, vol. 2, p. 179, no. 1221.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, 1913-1918, Bonn, 2000, vol. 2, p. 179, no. 1221.