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Kunststücke der Tiere (Für Florina)
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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Kunststücke der Tiere (Für Florina)
signed with initial 'K' (lower right); dated, titled and numbered ‘1921/7 Kunststücke der Tiere (für Florina)’ (on the artist's mount)
oil transfer and watercolor on paper mounted by the artist on card
Sheet size: 6 x 10 1/2 in. (15.4 x 26.6 cm.)
Mount size: 7 1/2 x 12 in. (19.2 x 30.3 cm.)
Executed in 1921
Kunststücke der Tiere (Für Florina)
signed with initial 'K' (lower right); dated, titled and numbered ‘1921/7 Kunststücke der Tiere (für Florina)’ (on the artist's mount)
oil transfer and watercolor on paper mounted by the artist on card
Sheet size: 6 x 10 1/2 in. (15.4 x 26.6 cm.)
Mount size: 7 1/2 x 12 in. (19.2 x 30.3 cm.)
Executed in 1921
Provenance
Florina-Irene Galston, Berlin (gift from the artist, 1921).
Gottfried Galston, Berlin (by descent from the above).
Dean J.A. McClain, Jr., Durham (until at least 1951).
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York.
Israel Ber Neumann, Berlin and New York.
Mozes S. Schupf Foundation, Inc., New Jersey (acquired from the above, 1952); sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 11 May 1994, lot 36.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Gottfried Galston, Berlin (by descent from the above).
Dean J.A. McClain, Jr., Durham (until at least 1951).
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York.
Israel Ber Neumann, Berlin and New York.
Mozes S. Schupf Foundation, Inc., New Jersey (acquired from the above, 1952); sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 11 May 1994, lot 36.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Stuttgart, 1954, pp. 168, 191 and 379 (illustrated, p. 168).
J. Smith Pierce, Paul Klee and Primitive Art, New York, 1976, pp. 74 and 134.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1919-1922, Bern, 1999, vol. 3, p. 261, no. 2598 (illustrated).
J. Smith Pierce, Paul Klee and Primitive Art, New York, 1976, pp. 74 and 134.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1919-1922, Bern, 1999, vol. 3, p. 261, no. 2598 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Durham, Women’s College Library Gallery, The Duke University Art Council, Klee, Kandinsky, Feininger, February 1951, no. 7.
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