Lot #2104: PAUL KLEE - Figur der orientalischen Bühne - Original color silkscreen

   

Artist: Paul Klee (Swiss/German, 1879 - 1940).
Title: "Figur der orientalischen Bühne".
Medium: Original color silkscreen.
Date: Composed 1934. Printed 1941.
Dimensions: Overall size: 9 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. (251 x 190 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $700
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $1,000/1,200
Lot Note(s): Signed in the plate, lower center; Felix Paul Klee handstamp, verso. Edition unknown, presumed very small. Cream wove paper. Small margins, as issued. Fine impression. Very good to fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board. Provenance: Acquired directly from Felix Paul Klee.
Comment(s): A rare print. The only auction record we could find was a sale of an unstamped impression at $1,035 (Braswell Galleries, Norwalk, CT) on October 3, 1999, lot #20. This edition was authorized by Klee shortly before his death in 1940 and printed the next year. It also had the imprimatur of Klee's son, Felix Paul Klee (1907-1990), a prominent art historian and later the director of the Paul Klee Foundation. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [29308-2-700-NA]