Lot Essay
Josef Helfenstein and Stefan Frey of the Paul-Klee-Stiftung have confirmed the authenticity of this watercolor.
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Details
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Höhle
signed upper right 'Klee'--dated, numbered and titled on the mount '1929 AE.8.Höhle'--watercolor, pen and black ink on paper laid down by the artist on board
Image size: 9 1/8 x 8in. (23.1 x 20.4cm.)
Mount size: 19¾ x 17¼in. (50.2 x 43.7cm.)
Painted in 1929
Höhle
signed upper right 'Klee'--dated, numbered and titled on the mount '1929 AE.8.Höhle'--watercolor, pen and black ink on paper laid down by the artist on board
Image size: 9 1/8 x 8in. (23.1 x 20.4cm.)
Mount size: 19¾ x 17¼in. (50.2 x 43.7cm.)
Painted in 1929
Provenance
Lily Klee, Bern (1940-1946)
Klee Gesellschaft, Bern (1946)
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (1950)
Klee Gesellschaft, Bern (1946)
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (1950)
Literature
Oeuvre-Katalog Klee, 1929, no. 268 (AE8)