Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Parkbild

Details

Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Parkbild
signed 'Klee' (lower left), dated, numbered and titled '1933 H 14 Parkbild' (on the artist's mount)
watercolour on paper
12 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. (32.7 x 20.6 cm.) (subject)
19 x 13¾ in. (48.2 x 35 cm.) (mount)
Executed in 1933

Provenance

The Artist's Estate.
Klee Gesellschaft, Berne (1946).
Felix Klee, Berne (1953).
Galerie Beyeler, Basle (1965).

Exhibited

Basle, Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Klee, 1935, no. 141.
St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Klee. Werke aus Familienbesitz, 1955, no. 172.
Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, Paul Klee 1879-1940, 1960, no. 25.
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Paul Klee, 1961, no. 94.
London, Arts Council,Drawings and Watercolours by Paul Klee from the Felix Klee Collection Berne, April 1963, no. 228 (illustrated). The exhibition later travelled to Bristol, Leeds, York, Liverpool, Sheffield, Glasgow, and Cardiff.
Basle, Galerie Beyeler, Paul Klee. The later work, June-Sept. 1965, no. 8.

Sale room notice

Sold with a photo-certificate from the Paul Klee Stiftung dated Berne, 13 May 1997 stating that the work is recorded in the Artist's Werkkatalog as no. 1933, 254 (X14).

Lot Essay

Professor Walter Ueberwasser states in his commentaries for the Beyeler Gallery's catalogue Klee, The later Works: "Klee has created a wizard's mixture of axis and counter-axis, ellipses and twisting spirals. Memory, wriggling and streaking, throwing up animals profiles and foxes tails, goes far beyond the weeping willows providing lovers hiding places in a Düsseldorf park. Not a single fraction of space is unused. There is just a compact, fiery-red burgeoning, merging into blue evening twilight. For once, Klee, so often wandering at a remote distance, allows himself to celebrate such concentration".

This work is recorded in the artist's 1933 Werkkatalog as no. 254 X 14.

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