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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Die Nester
Details
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Die Nester
signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, numbered and titled '1915 26. Die Nester' (on the artist's mount)
pen and black ink on paper and metallic paper collage laid down on card
Sheet size: 7 ½ x 5 ½ in. (19.1 x 14 cm.)
Mount size: 13 x 9 5/8 in. (33 x 24.4 cm.)
Executed in 1915
Die Nester
signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, numbered and titled '1915 26. Die Nester' (on the artist's mount)
pen and black ink on paper and metallic paper collage laid down on card
Sheet size: 7 ½ x 5 ½ in. (19.1 x 14 cm.)
Mount size: 13 x 9 5/8 in. (33 x 24.4 cm.)
Executed in 1915
Provenance
Lily Klee, Bern.
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946).
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York (by 1948).
Mitchell collection, Chicago.
Peter Bartlow Gallery, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, August 2003.
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946).
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York (by 1948).
Mitchell collection, Chicago.
Peter Bartlow Gallery, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, August 2003.
Literature
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, 1913-1918, Bonn, 2000, vol. 2, p. 226, no. 1359 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Kronprinzenpalais, Paul Klee, February 1923.
Kunsthalle Basel, Gedächtnisausstellung Paul Klee, February-March 1941, p. 11, no. 28.
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Fifty Drawings by Paul Klee, October-November 1948, no. 3.
Kunsthalle Basel, Gedächtnisausstellung Paul Klee, February-March 1941, p. 11, no. 28.
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Fifty Drawings by Paul Klee, October-November 1948, no. 3.