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PAUL KLEE(1879-1940)Klein und Gross (Small and Large)
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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
signed 'Klee' (lower right) and dated and inscribed '1929 E.4. Klein und Gross' (on the artist's mount)
reed pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount
18 1/16 x 12 1/16 in (45.8 x 30.7 cm) (sheet size)
21 5/8 x 14 3/8 in (54.9 x 36.5 cm) (mount size)
Executed in 1929
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist's studio.
Lily Klee Collection, Bern (the artist's wife; by descent from the artist in 1940).
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (bequeathed from the above in 1946).
Werner Allenbach Collection, Bern, by 1958.
Galerie Berggruen & Cie, Paris (acquired from the above in 1958).
Galerie Europe, Paris, circa 1961.
Palais Galliéra, Paris (acquired on September 29, 1962).
Walter & Jeanny Bick Collection, Toronto, circa 1973.
Sale: Sotheby's, London, March 28, 1973, lot 142.
Waddington Galleries Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the previous owner in 1977; their sale, Christie's, London, February 5, 2015, lot 239.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Exhibited
Washington, The Obelisk Gallery, Paul Klee, March - April 1962, no. 15.
Literature
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen 1921-1930, Berlin, 1934, no. 77.
The Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, no. 4900 (illustrated p. 340).
