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

Alt und Jung (Grün und Rot)

Details
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Alt und Jung (Grün und Rot)
signed, dated and numbered 'Klee 1913 123' (upper left)
oil on board
8 7/8 x 10 7/8 in. (22.5 x 27.6 cm.)
Painted in 1913
Provenance
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, by 1952 (no. 3004).
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York.
Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London, by 1972.
Gallery Gion Sanjyo, Kyoto.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 4 June 1979, lot 109.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 14 November 1985, lot 250A.
Literature
E.M. Triska, Die Quadratbilder Paul Klees, 2Bde., Dissertation, Vienna, 1980, p. 15.
The Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee, vol. 2, 1913-1918, Boston, 2000, no. 1025 (illustrated p. 90).
Exhibited
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Paul Klee 1879-1940. A Retrospective Exhibition, Feb.-April 1967, no. 13 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 23). This exhibition later travelled to Pasadena, San Francisco, Columbus, Cleveland, Kansas City, Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia.
London, Fischer Fine Art Ltd., Paul Klee 1879-1940, Sept.-Oct. 1975, no. 1 (illustrated in colour in the catalogue).
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