Paul Klee (1879-1940)
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Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Zerbrechliches Ubermütig

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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Zerbrechliches Ubermütig
signed 'Klee' (upper right); dated, numbered and titled '1937 S. 9. zerbrechliches übermütig' (on the artist's mount)
colored wax crayons on paper mounted on card
Sheet size: 10 5/8 x 16 7/8 in. (27 x 43 cm.)
Mount size: 13 1/8 x 19 in. (33.4 x 48.2 cm.)
Executed in 1937
Provenance
Lily Klee, Bern (1940).
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946).
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Morton G. Schamberg, Highland Park, Illinois.
Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva.
Saidenberg Gallery, Inc., New York (by 1957).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1961.
Literature
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, Bonn, 2003, vol. 7, p. 272, no. 7105 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Brussels, Galerie Dietrich, Paul Klee, December 1938, no. 27.
Frankfurt, Galerie Buchheim-Milton, Paul Klee, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik, November 1950, no. 16 (with incorrect medium).
New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Inc., Third Bi-annual Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Paul Klee, November-December 1957, no. 44 (illustrated).
Waltham, Brandeis University, Paul Klee, May-June 1960, no. 32 (illustrated).

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