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    17 November 2016

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    • Paul Klee (1879-1940)
    Lot 1049

    Paul Klee (1879-1940)

    Stoerung durch Fliehende

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    USD 35,000

    Estimate

    USD 40,000 - USD 60,000

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    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 and exhibited

    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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    PROPERTY FROM THE HOLDINGS OF THE FORD FOUNDATION

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