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Lot 6A
PAUL KLEE(1879-1940)Nächtlicher Fels (Nocturnal Rock)
14 May 2025, 17:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$120,000 inc. premium
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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Nächtlicher Fels (Nocturnal Rock)
signed 'Klee' (lower center); dated and inscribed '1927. Z.4. Nächtlicher Fels' (on the artist's mount)
watercolor and pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount
19 x 12 1/4 in (48.2 x 31.2 cm) (sheet size)
19 15/16 x 12 3/4 in (50.6 x 32.3 cm) (mount size)
Executed in 1927
signed 'Klee' (lower center); dated and inscribed '1927. Z.4. Nächtlicher Fels' (on the artist's mount)
watercolor and pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount
19 x 12 1/4 in (48.2 x 31.2 cm) (sheet size)
19 15/16 x 12 3/4 in (50.6 x 32.3 cm) (mount size)
Executed in 1927
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).
Private collection, Switzerland, from 1953 until 1956.
Sale: Kornfeld, Bern, June 18, 2004, lot 83.
Jan Krugier Collection, Geneva (acquired at the above sale); his sale, Sotheby's, London, February 6, 2014, lot 162.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Exhibited
Dessau, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Aquarelle von Paul Klee, October-December 1929.
Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, Paul Klee, Aquarelle aus den Jahren 1920-1929, February 1 - March 1, 1930, no. 58.
Dessau, Staatliches Bauhaus, Paul Klee, April 1931.
Bern, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee, February 23 - March 24, 1935, no. 129.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, July 20 - October 7, 2007, no. 164.
Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee, Paul Klee - Sonderklasse, unverkäuflich, October 21, 2014 - January 2, 2015, no. 186 (later traveled to Leipzig).
Literature
P. Klee, Oeuvre-Katalog, 1927, no. 254 (Z 4).
C. Hopfengart, 'Klee an den deutschen "Museen der Gegenwart", 1916-1933' in Paul Klee, Kunst und Karriere, Beiträge des internationalen Symposiums in Bern, exh. cat., Bern, 2000, p. 82, note 144.
Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. V, 1927-1930, Bern, 2001, no. 4468.
R. Labrusse, 'La matière du temps' in Paul Klee, L'ironie à l'oeuvre, exh. cat., Paris, 2016, p. 172, note 22.
