Important Paintings, Sculptures, Watercolors and Drawings
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 08:00 pm
Lot 32
Paul Klee, 1879-1940 (CH)
Alt und Jung (Grün und Rot), 1913
Oil on cardboard.
H 233 mm W 280 mm.
Signed, dated and numbered: 123
| * | CHF | 160'000 / 180'000 |
| * | EUR | 140'000 / 160'000 |
| * | USD | 170'000 / 190'000 |
Annotation:
Provenance: Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne;
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York;
Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London;
Galerie Gion Sanjyo, Kyoto;
Sotheby's New York, 4. June1979, Lot 109;
Sotheby's New York, 14. November 1985, Lot 250 A.
Exhibitions: S.R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Paul Klee. A Retrospective Exhibition. February - April, 1967. No. 13 (illustration in the exhibition catalogue, page 23).
The exhibition toured to Pasadena, San Francisco, Colombus, Cleveland, Kansas City, Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia;
Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London. Paul Klee, 1879 - 1940. September - October, 1975. No. 1 (color illustration in the exhibition catalogue).
Literature: E.M. Triska, Die Quadratbilder Paul Klees, Dissertation. 2 Volumes. Vienna, 1980. Page 15;
Paul-Klee-Stiftung, Kunstmuseum Bern. Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné. Volume 2, 1913 - 1918. Berne, Benteli, 2000. No. 1025 (illustration).