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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Dämonische Nacht
Details
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Dämonische Nacht
signed 'Klee' (lower center); dated, titled and inscribed '1939 OP 7 daemonische Nacht' (on the artist's mount)
colored paste, watercolor and chalk on paper mounted on card
Image size: 8 ¼ x 11 ¼ in. (20.5 x 29.4 cm.)
Mount size: 13 3⁄8 x 16 ¾ in. (33.9 x 42.5 cm.)
Executed in 1939
Dämonische Nacht
signed 'Klee' (lower center); dated, titled and inscribed '1939 OP 7 daemonische Nacht' (on the artist's mount)
colored paste, watercolor and chalk on paper mounted on card
Image size: 8 ¼ x 11 ¼ in. (20.5 x 29.4 cm.)
Mount size: 13 3⁄8 x 16 ¾ in. (33.9 x 42.5 cm.)
Executed in 1939
Provenance
Lily Klee, Bern (wife of the artist).
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above, 1946).
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Berlin and New York (by 1953).
Henry Margulis, New York.
Ludmilla and Hans Arnhold, New York (then by descent).
Private Foundation, Europe (gift from the above).
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above, 1946).
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Berlin and New York (by 1953).
Henry Margulis, New York.
Ludmilla and Hans Arnhold, New York (then by descent).
Private Foundation, Europe (gift from the above).
Literature
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue raisonné, 1939, Bern, 2004, vol. VIII, p. 546, no. 8934 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Paul Klee, September-October 1953, no. 43.
Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, The Magical Worlds of Redon, Klee, Baziotes, January-February 1957.
Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, The Magical Worlds of Redon, Klee, Baziotes, January-February 1957.
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