Paul Klee (1879-1940)
FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF KARL JULIUS ANSELMINO
Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Angreifende Pflanzen (Attacking Plants)

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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Angreifende Pflanzen (Attacking Plants)
signed 'Klee' (lower right), dated, numbered and inscribed '1926 F.8.angreifende Pflanzen' (on the artist's mount)
pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount
image: 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.9 cm.)
artist's mount: 7 x 9 3/8 in. (17.9 x 23.9 cm.)
Drawn in 1926
Provenance
Berggruen & Cie, Paris; sale, Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 18-20 October 1950, lot 2185.
Kunstkabinett Klihm, Munich, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Karl Julius Anselmino, Wuppertal.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Paris, 1929 (illustrated).
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen, 1921-1930, Berlin, 1934, no. 80.
S. Takiguchi, 'Paul Klee', in Atelier, vol. 17, no. 4, Tokyo, 1940, pp. 11-16 (illustrated).
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, 1923-1926, Bern, 2000, no. 4110, p. 478 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Wuppertal, Kunst-und Museumsverein, Paul Klee, Werke aus den Jahren 1904 bis 1940, January - February 1956, no. 39.
Sale room notice
Please note, the provenance should read:
Berggruen & Cie, Paris; sale, Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 18-20 October 1950, lot 2185.
Kunstkabinett Klihm, Munich, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Karl Julius Anselmino, Wuppertal.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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