Artist: Paul Klee (Swiss/German, 1879 - 1940).
Title: "Komposition".
Medium: Watercolor and ink drawing on paper.
Date: Composed c1919.
Dimensions: Overall size: 7 x 10 3/4 in. (178 x 273 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pen, upper right recto; collector ink stamps, verso. Painted on thin cream wove paper. Very good condition; newspaper (?) fragments upper left and right edges, verso; annotated "Paul Klee," verso; the numbers "30-10-1930" stamped verso; presents very well. Provenance: If you have a genuine interest in bidding on this work kindly send an email to:
[email protected] for provenance information and additional image(s). Comment(s): Two auction records of note to compare to our present example are the sale of Klee’s “Baum am Bach,” watercolor and ink on paper on board, 11 15/16” x 8 ¾,” sold for $80,875 (£62,500) including premium by Christie’s London, King Street, 06/28/2017, lot #123; and “Krankenbeusch,” watercolor and ink on paper, 5 9/16” x 7,” sold for $76,570 (SF65,000) at Galerie Kornfeld and Cie, Bern, Switzerland, 06/16/2011, lot #96. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [30199-2-35000]