Details
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Baum am Bach (Construction by the Brook)
signed and dated 'Klee 22' (upper right); dated, numbered and inscribed '1922/13 Bau am Bach' (on the artist's mount)
pen and ink and watercolour on paper laid down on the artist's mount
image: 12 x 8 5/8 in. (30.4 x 22.2 cm.)
mount: 14 3/8 x 10 ¼ in. (36.5 x 26 cm.)
Executed in 1922
Provenance
Lily Klee, Bern, by descent from the artist in 1940.
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, by 1946.
Curt Valentin [Bucholz Gallery], Berlin & New York.
Frederick, C. Schang, South Norwalk, United States, by 1950.
Berggruen & Cie, Paris.
Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York (no. 16231).
Frederick M. Stafford, New York; sale, Christie's, New York, 20 November 1986, lot 129.
Private collection, Italy, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Studio Simonis, Turin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
J. Glaesemer, Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen II, 1921-1936, Bern, 1984 (illustrated p. 172).
The Paul Klee Foundation, (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, 1919-1922, Bern, 1999, no. 2837, p. 365 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Zürich, Kunsthaus, Paul Klee, [...], April - May 1926, no. 55.
Wiesbaden, Neues Museum, August-Ausstellung, August 1926, no. 108.
New York, Buchholz Gallery, Paul Klee, May 1950, no. 4.
New York, New Art Circle I. B. Neumann, Paul Klee, April - May 1952, no. 9.
New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, Odyssey of an Art Collector, November 1966 - January 1967, no. 204, p. 130 (illustrated).
New Orleans, Museum of Fine Art, German and Austrian Expressionism, November 1975 - January 1976, no. 39, p. 31 (illustrated p. 58).
Milan, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Il disegno del nostro secolo, prima parte, Da Klimt a Wols, April - July 1994, no. 102, p. 423 (illustrated p. 184).
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