Important Paintings, Scultpures, Watercolors, Drawings and Multiples
Monday, 24 November 2014, 06:00 pm
Lot 51
Paul Klee, 1879-1940 (CH)
Metamorphose, 1915
India ink line on Fabriano, on cardboard.
H 240 mm W 205 mm.
Drawing: H 123 mm W132 mm. Signed upper right: Klee.
| * | CHF | 25'000 / 35'000 |
| * | EUR | 22'000 / 30'000 |
| * | USD | 27'000 / 38'000 |
Hammer Price: CHF 26'000
Annotation:
Dated and inscribed on cardboard lower left: 1915, 123. Titled lower center: Metamorphose.
Provenance:
Hermann und Margrit Rupf, Berne, until 1955;
Berggruen & Cie, Paris, 1955-56;
Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, München, 1956-57;
Important German private collection.
Exhibition:
Düsseldorf, Galerie Alex Vömel.
Zeichnungen von Paul Klee, January 1957, No. 6,
Literature:
Paul-Klee-Stiftung, Kunstmuseum Bern.
Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné. Volume. 2, 1913-1918.
Berne, Benteli, 2000. No. 1456, illustration.