PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Kleines Blumenstilleben
signed, dated and numbered ‘Klee 1926 F.4.’ (upper left); signed again, dated, numbered and inscribed '1926 F.4. Kleines Blumenstilleben Klee' (on the reverse of the artist's frame)
oil on board laid down on board, in the artist's original frame
13 ¾ x 8 5/8 in. (35 x 22 cm.) including the artist's frame
Painted in 1926

Provenance
Lily Klee, Bern, by descent from the artist in 1940, until 1946.
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, by 1946.
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, by whom acquired from the above, in 1952.
Kleeman Galleries, Munich & New York (no. K6694), by whom acquired from the above, in 1952.
Private collection, Italy, by whom acquired in the 1960s, and thence by descent.