Paul Klee (Swiss/German, 1879-1940)

Säugling
Signed "Klee" lower right, dated, inscribed, and titled "1926 H. 4. ... on the mount.
Ink on paper (mounted to paperboard), 9 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. (24.0 x 31.0 cm), framed.
Condition: Scattered fox marks, toning, not examined out of frame.

Provenance: Lily Klee, Bern (1940-1946); Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-1950); Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery; Valentin Gallery), Berlin/New York (from 1950); World House Galleries, New York; Berggruen & Cie, Paris; Oscar Edwards, Coogee, Australia; through to the current private collection, Massachusetts.

Literature: Will Grohmann, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen, 1921-1930 (Berlin, 1934a), no. 96; The Paul Klee Foundation and Kunst Museum Bern, eds., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1923-1926, vol. 4 (London: Thames and Hudson, 2001), no. 4127 (illustrated).

Exhibitions: 50 Drawings by Paul Klee: Collection of Curt Valentin, New York, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, November 18-December 30, 1953, no. 27; Paul Klee/Max Beckmann, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, January 17-February 21, 1954, no. 27; 14 Zeichnungen von Paul Klee, Galerie ABC, Winterthur, 1961-62, no. 4.

Condition: Framed dimensions: 20 x 22 x 1 1/2 in.

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