Sale 12146
New York
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17 November 2016
PROPERTY FROM THE HOLDINGS OF THE FORD FOUNDATION
Price realised
USD 35,000
Estimate
Paul Klee (1879-1940) Stoerung durch Fliehende signed 'Klee' (upper center); dated, numbered and titled '1932 L14 Stoerung durch Fliehende' (on the artist's mount) pen and brown ink on paper mounted on card Sheet size: 12 ½ x 19 in. (31.8 x 48.3 cm.) Mount size: 19 ¾ x 25 ½ in. (50.2 x 64.8 cm.) Drawn in 1932
Provenance
Private collection, Bern. Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (by 1960). Acquired from the above by the present owner, July 1966.
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Literature
M. Huggler, intro., The Drawings of Paul Klee, Alhambra, California, 1965 (illustrated). The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, 1931-1933, Bonn, 2002, vol. 6, p. 180, no. 5750 (illustrated).
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