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Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879–1940) · 1921 - work number 1921.125

CHF 1,550,000 hammer

≈ $1,829,775≈ £1,394,965≈ €1,651,272

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Medium
Oil · Paintings all oil results →
As published: “Oil with gouache and pencil on paper mounted on wooden panel”
Support
Panel
Signed / inscribed
Signed
Category
Oil paintings
Dimensions
34.7 x 31 cm, image; 39 x 35.2 cm, wooden panel
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 281: 125 Selected Works of Art</P><P>Live Auction (281)
Date
September 13, 2024
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
168
Estimate
CHF 1,200,000 – — (≈ $1,416,600) (≈ £1,079,973) (≈ €1,278,404)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (4)
  • Emmy (Galka) Scheyer, New York/San Francisco/Hollywood (from 1924)
  • Rudolf Probst, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, Dresden/Mannheim (1930-1932)
  • Lily Klee, Bern (1940-1942)
  • Private collection Switzerland
Exhibitions (26)
  • Berlin 1922, Galerie Dr. Goldschmidt & Dr. Wallerstein, Kollektiv-Ausstellung von Paul Klee, ältere und neue Gemälde, Aquarelle und Graphik der Jahre 1914-1922 (no cat.)
  • New York 1925, The Daniel Gallery, Special Exhibition The Blue Four, Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, cat. no. 40
  • Oakland 1926, The Oakland Art Gallery, The Blue Four, Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, cat. no. 11
  • Los Angeles 1926, Los Angeles Museum, The Blue Four, Feininger, Kandinsky, Jawlensky, Paul Klee, cat. no. 43
  • San Diego 1927, San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, The Blue Four, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee (no cat.)
  • Seattle 1927, Henry Art Gallery, The Blue Four, Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee (no cat.)
  • Dessau 1929, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Paul Klee, Aquarelle aus zehn Jahren, 1920–1929 (no cat.)
  • Dresden 1930, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, Paul Klee, Aquarelle aus zehn Jahren, 1920–1929, cat. no. 3
  • Saarbrücken 1930, Staatliches Museum, Paul Klee, Aquarelle aus zehn Jahren, 1920–1929, cat. no. 37
  • Winterthur 1952, Museum of Art, Paul Klee, cat. no. 29
  • La Sarraz 1954, Château La Sarraz, Paul Klee, cat. no. 7
  • Bern 1956, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee, exhibition in conjunction with the Paul Klee Foundation, cat. no. 454
  • Basel 1967, Kunsthalle, Paul Klee 1879-1940, complete exhibition, cat. no. 46
  • Berlin 1974, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Hommage à Schönberg, Der Blaue Reiter und das Musikalische in der Malerei der Zeit, cat. no. 54
  • Schaffhausen 1977, Museum Allerheiligen, Zwischen Improvisation und Fuge, Bilder von Kandinsky, Kupka, Klee, Marc, Delaunay, Macke, Itten, Lohse, cat. no. 36
  • Stuttgart 1985, Staatsgalerie, Vom Klang der Bilder, Die Musik in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, cat. no. 362
  • Frankfurt am Main 1986, Schirn Kunsthalle, Paul Klee und die Musik, cat. no. 38
  • Bern/Düsseldort 1997/1998, Kunstmuseum/Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen,Die Blaue Vier, Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee in der Neuen Welt, cat. no. 118
  • Strasbourg 2004, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Paul Klee et la nature de l'art, une dévotion aux petites choses, cat. no. 20
  • Bern 2006, Zentrum Paul Klee, Paul Klee, Melodie, Rhythmus, Tanz, p. 237
  • Salzburg 2008/2009, Museum der Moderne, Paul Klee, Melodie, Rhythmus, Tanz, p. 274
  • Bern 2009/2010, Zentrum Paul Klee, Paul Klee, Leben und Nachleben (no cat.)
  • Paris 2011/2012, Musée de la musique, Paul Klee (1879-1940), polyphonies, p. 199, ill. p. 139
  • Leipzig/Bern 2014/2015, Museum der bildenden Künste/Zentrum Paul Klee, Paul Klee, Sonderklasse, not for sale, cat. no. 70
  • Bern/Munich 2015/2016, Zentrum Paul Klee/Städtische Galerie im Lehnbachhaus, Klee & Kandinsky, Nachbarn Freunde Konkurrenten, cat. no. 73
  • Bern 2016, Zentrum Paul Klee, Paul Klee, Ich bin Maler (without cat.)
Literature (26)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Paul Klee Foundation, Catalogue raisonné, vol. 3, Works 1919-1922, Bern 1999, Cat. No. 2716
  • Waldemar Jolles, Berliner Rundbrief, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich, no. 65, 16 January 1923, no. 65
  • Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, Stuttgart 1954, p. 214, no. 69
  • Jürg Spiller, Paul Klee, Das bildnerische Denken, Form- und Gestaltungslehre, Basel/Stuttgart 1956, p. 516
  • Max Huggler, Paul Klee, in: Künstler Lexikon der Schweiz XX. Jahrhundert, Frauenfeld 1958, p. 525
  • Will Grohmann, Der Maler Paul Klee, Cologne 1966, pp. 24, 94
  • Christina Kröll, Die Bildtitel Paul Klees, Eine Studie zur Beziehung von Bild und Sprache in der Kunst des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Bonn 1968, p. 69
  • Jürg Spiller, Paul Klee, Unendliche Naturgeschichte, Prinzipielle Ordnung der bildnerischen Mittel verbunden mit Naturstudium, und konstruktive Kompositionswege, Form- und Gestaltungslehre, Basel/ Stuttgart 1970
  • Andrew Kagan: Paul Klee's 'Ad Parnassum, The Theory and Practice of Eighteenth-Century Polyphony as Models for Klee's Art, in: Arts Magazine, 1977, p. 99
  • Andrew Kagan, Paul Klee's 'Polyphonic Architecture', in: Arts Magazine, vol. 54, no. 5, 1980, pp. 154-157, pp. 155f.
  • Jean Laude, Paul Klee: lettres, 'écritures', signes, in: Écritures, systèmes idéographiques et pratiques expressives, actes du colloque international de l'Université Paris-VII, Paris 1982, p. 360
  • Andrew Kagan, Paul Klee, Art & Music, Ithaca/London 1983, p. 78
  • Osamu Okuda, Versinkende Villen - aufsteigende Baracken, Paul Klee und die Bauhaus-Debatten über den Konstruktivismus, in: Aufstieg und Fall der Moderne, exhibition catalogue, Weimar, 1999, p. 337
  • Ursina Barandun/Michael Baumgartner Centre Paul Klee, Bern, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005, p. 416
  • Stéphane Mroczkowski, Peinture et musique, Un dialogue incessant, in: Dossier de L'art, no. 121, Juillet-Août 2005, p. 60
  • Elisabeth Stengård, Vemod och poesi i Klees verk, in: dagen, torsdag, 8 September 2005, p. 12
  • Vivian Endicott Barnett, "From Both Sides of the Atlantic to the Pacific, Klee and America in the Twenties", in: Klee and America, exhibition catalogue, New York 2006, p. 36
  • Simon Crameri, Von Hörbildern und Tongemälden, Das Musikarchiv des Zentrum Paul Klee, in: Paul Klee, Melodie und Rhythmus, exhibition catalogue, Bern 2006, p. 205
  • Michael Baumgartner, Paul Klee - eight work phases, in: Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Zurich 2006, p. 69
  • Klee, Paul, extraits du journal, extraits de théorie de l'art moderne, New York 2013, p. 42
  • Wolfgang Kersten/Osamu Okuda/Marie Kakinuma, Annotated catalogue of the special class works, in: Paul Klee - Sonderklasse, unverkäuflich, exhibition catalogue, Bern 2014, pp. 162-511, no. 70
  • Stefan Frey, Documentation on the Special Class sheets, the posthumous Special Class, the prototypes of the Special Class and Paul Klee's designs, in: Paul Klee - Special Class, not for sale, exhibition catalogue, Bern 2014, pp. 512-569, no. 70
  • Wolfgang Kersten/Osamu Okuda/Marie Kakinuma, The Modern Artist as Self-Administrator and Curator - Paul Klee's Special Class, in: Paul Klee - Special Class, not for sale, exhibition catalogue, Bern 2014, pp. 58-127, pp. 104, 109
  • Hajo Düchting, Paul Klee, Paris 2016, p. 101
  • Sergio Martinez Vilajuana, Hacer de una imagen pensamiento. Llíneas, fuerzas, colour, un encuentro entre Paul Klee y Gilles Deleuze, Santiago de Chile 2018, p. 160
  • Christine Hopfengart, Doppel-Leben, Paul Klee als Maler und Musiker / Double Life, Paul Klee as Painter and Musician, in: Paul Klee, Musik und Theater in Leben und Werk/Paul Klee, Music and Theatre in Life and Work, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Thomas, Munich 2018, p. 21

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