Lot Essay
This work is recorded in the artist's Werkkatalog as no. 1930, P 2 (62).
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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Versiegelte Dame
Details
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Versiegelte Dame
signed 'Klee' (lower right) and numbered, dated and titled 'VIII 1930 P.2. Versiegelte Dame' (on the artist's mount)
watercolour and pen and ink on Ingres laid paper laid down on the artist's mount, with a thin band of brown watercolour on the mount just below the subject.
19¼ x 13 5/8in. (48.5 x 34.7cm.) image
23 5/8 x 18½in. (60 x 47cm.) mount
Executed in 1930
Versiegelte Dame
signed 'Klee' (lower right) and numbered, dated and titled 'VIII 1930 P.2. Versiegelte Dame' (on the artist's mount)
watercolour and pen and ink on Ingres laid paper laid down on the artist's mount, with a thin band of brown watercolour on the mount just below the subject.
19¼ x 13 5/8in. (48.5 x 34.7cm.) image
23 5/8 x 18½in. (60 x 47cm.) mount
Executed in 1930
Provenance
Purchased directly from the Artist by the father of the present owner shortly after it was painted.
Exhibited
Berne, Kunstmuseum, Ausstellung Paul Klee, 1956, no. 592.
Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Paul Klee Gemälde, Aquarelle Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Feb.-April 1983, no. 52 (illustrated in colour).
Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Paul Klee Gemälde, Aquarelle Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Feb.-April 1983, no. 52 (illustrated in colour).