IN STELLUNG (IN POSITION), Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

signed Klee (lower right); titled, dated 1939 and numbered VV6 on the artist's mount
watercolour on paper laid down on the artist's mount
image size: 31.3 by 22cm.; 12 1/4 by 8 5/8 in.
mount size: 50 by 35cm.; 19 5/8 by 13 3/4 in.
Executed in 1939.

Provenance:
Lily Klee, Bern (the artist's widow; 1940-1946)

Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-1949)

Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (1949-1950)

Oscar Müller-Widmann, Basel (acquired in 1950)

Galerie d'Art Moderne, Basel

Comte Maurice S. d'Arquian, Brussels (until 1959)

Berggruen & Cie., Paris (1959)

World House Galleries, New York (acquired in 1959. Sold: Kunstkabinett Ketterer, Stuttgart, 3rd & 4th May 1962, lot 231)

Rudolf August Oetker, Germany (purchased at the above sale)

Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1962)

Thence by descent to the present owner