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Paul Klee (1879-1940) Ohne Titel (recto); Ohne Titel (geometrische Komposition) (verso) (Executed circa 1940) image 1
Paul Klee (1879-1940) Ohne Titel (recto); Ohne Titel (geometrische Komposition) (verso) (Executed circa 1940) image 2
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Paul Klee
(1879-1940)
Ohne Titel (recto); Ohne Titel (geometrische Komposition) (verso)

2 March 2017, 17:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £16,250 inc. premium

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Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Ohne Titel (recto); Ohne Titel (geometrische Komposition) (verso)
stamped with the artist's Nachlass stamp (to the mount, recto)
gesso and wax crayon on draft paper (recto); coloured paste on draft paper (verso)
28.8 x 20.4cm (11 5/16 x 8 1/16in).
Executed circa 1940

Footnotes

Provenance
Curt Valentin Collection, Berlin & New York.
G. David Thompson Collection, Pittsburgh.
Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva & Zurich, 1963.
James Wise Collection, Geneva, New York & Nice.
Galerie du Perron, Geneva.
Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, from 1964.
Private collection, Geneva & Paris (possibly acquired from the above, 1964).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited
Geneva, Galerie Georges Moos, Paul Klee, July - August 1963.
Zurich, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Paul Klee, 21 Zeichnungen, 2 May - 30 June 1964 (titled 'Personnage').

Literature
Exh. cat., Paul Klee. Die Zeit der Reife. Werke aus der Sammlung der Familie Klee, Munich, 1996, no. 15 (illustrated p. 24).
The Paul Klee Foundation (eds.), Paul Klee, catalogue raisonné, Vol. 9, 1940, Bern, 2004, no. 9402 (illustrated p. 239).

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