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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Schwarze Messe
Details
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Schwarze Messe
signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, numbered and inscribed '1936 13 Schwarze Messe' (on the artist's mount)
pastel on joined linen laid down on the artist's mount
image: 10 ¾ x 21 in. (27.2 x 53.2 cm.)
artist's mount: 15 1⁄8 x 25 in. (38.5 x 63.4 cm.)
Executed in 1936
Schwarze Messe
signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, numbered and inscribed '1936 13 Schwarze Messe' (on the artist's mount)
pastel on joined linen laid down on the artist's mount
image: 10 ¾ x 21 in. (27.2 x 53.2 cm.)
artist's mount: 15 1⁄8 x 25 in. (38.5 x 63.4 cm.)
Executed in 1936
Provenance
Private collection, Bern.
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, by whom acquired from the above in 1953.
Ludmilla & Hans Arnhold, New York, by whom acquired from the above in September 1954, and thence by descent.
Private Foundation, Europe, a gift from the above.
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, by whom acquired from the above in 1953.
Ludmilla & Hans Arnhold, New York, by whom acquired from the above in September 1954, and thence by descent.
Private Foundation, Europe, a gift from the above.
Literature
C. Kröll, Die Bildtitel Paul Klees, Eine Studie zur Beziehung von Bild und Sprache in der Kunst des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Bonn, 1968, p. 76.
C. Geelhaar, 'Paul Klee: "Früchte auf rot"', in Pantheon, vol. 30, no. 3, Munich, May - June 1972, p. 227.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 7, 1934-1938, Bern, 2003, no. 6924, p. 211 (illustrated).
B. Uhde-Stahl, Paul Klees geheime Symbolik, Berlin, 2018, p. 159.
C. Geelhaar, 'Paul Klee: "Früchte auf rot"', in Pantheon, vol. 30, no. 3, Munich, May - June 1972, p. 227.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 7, 1934-1938, Bern, 2003, no. 6924, p. 211 (illustrated).
B. Uhde-Stahl, Paul Klees geheime Symbolik, Berlin, 2018, p. 159.
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