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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, EUROPE
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Das Arme Sünderglöcklein
Details
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Das Arme Sünderglöcklein
signed 'Klee' (lower left); dated, numbered and inscribed '1913 110 Das Arme Sünderglöcklein' (on the artist's mount)
pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount
sheet: 5 1⁄8 x 6 ¾ in. (13.1 x 17.2 cm.)
artist's mount: 7 x 9 3⁄8 in. (18 x 23.8 cm.)
Executed in 1913
Das Arme Sünderglöcklein
signed 'Klee' (lower left); dated, numbered and inscribed '1913 110 Das Arme Sünderglöcklein' (on the artist's mount)
pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount
sheet: 5 1⁄8 x 6 ¾ in. (13.1 x 17.2 cm.)
artist's mount: 7 x 9 3⁄8 in. (18 x 23.8 cm.)
Executed in 1913
Provenance
Karl Nierendorf [Nierendorf Gallery], New York (no. 687), by 1941.
Private collection, United States, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, London, 5 February 2004, lot 366.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Private collection, United States, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, London, 5 February 2004, lot 366.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1913-1918, Bern, 2000, no. 1012, p. 86.
B. Uhde-Stahl, Paul Klees geheime Symbolik, Berlin, 2018, p. 130.
B. Uhde-Stahl, Paul Klees geheime Symbolik, Berlin, 2018, p. 130.
Exhibited
New York, League Gallery, Paul Klee - Presented by the Art Students' League of New York, January - February 1941, no. 33, n.p. (titled 'The Sinners' Bell' and with incorrect medium).
Cambridge, Busch-Reisinger Museum, XXth Century Germanic Art from Private Collections in Greater Boston, March - May 1961, no. 94.61.
Cambridge, Busch-Reisinger Museum, XXth Century Germanic Art from Private Collections in Greater Boston, March - May 1961, no. 94.61.
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