Paul Klee (1879-1940)
WORKS ON PAPER FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AVANT-GARDES The Collection of a Scholar, Sold to Benefit Humanitarian Causes
Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Baum am Bach (Construction by the Brook)

细节
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Baum am Bach (Construction by the Brook)
signed and dated 'Klee 22' (upper right); dated, numbered and inscribed '1922/13 Bau am Bach' (on the artist's mount)
pen and ink and watercolour on paper laid down on the artist's mount
image: 12 x 8 5/8 in. (30.4 x 22.2 cm.)
mount: 14 3/8 x 10 ¼ in. (36.5 x 26 cm.)
Executed in 1922
来源
Lily Klee, Bern, by descent from the artist in 1940.
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, by 1946.
Curt Valentin [Bucholz Gallery], Berlin & New York.
Frederick, C. Schang, South Norwalk, United States, by 1950.
Berggruen & Cie, Paris.
Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York (no. 16231).
Frederick M. Stafford, New York; sale, Christie's, New York, 20 November 1986, lot 129.
Private collection, Italy, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Studio Simonis, Turin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
出版
J. Glaesemer, Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen II, 1921-1936, Bern, 1984 (illustrated p. 172).
The Paul Klee Foundation, (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, 1919-1922, Bern, 1999, no. 2837, p. 365 (illustrated).
展览
Zürich, Kunsthaus, Paul Klee, [...], April - May 1926, no. 55.
Wiesbaden, Neues Museum, August-Ausstellung, August 1926, no. 108.
New York, Buchholz Gallery, Paul Klee, May 1950, no. 4.
New York, New Art Circle I. B. Neumann, Paul Klee, April - May 1952, no. 9.
New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, Odyssey of an Art Collector, November 1966 - January 1967, no. 204, p. 130 (illustrated).
New Orleans, Museum of Fine Art, German and Austrian Expressionism, November 1975 - January 1976, no. 39, p. 31 (illustrated p. 58).
Milan, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Il disegno del nostro secolo, prima parte, Da Klimt a Wols, April - July 1994, no. 102, p. 423 (illustrated p. 184).

拍品专文

Bau am Bach is a fine example of Paul Klee’s unique poetic style. In the present lot, the artist’s serious artistic constructions are combined with his – also typical – childish side, in which he plays with pictorial elements, wittingly juxtaposing them. In this drawing the abstract lines, delicately drawn and balanced, seem to become figural elements and to be turning into a house and a small stream of water with a fir tree next to it. The composition is completed by a tiny full moon shining on the scene, which makes it even more delicate and surreal.

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