Paul Klee (1879-1940), Bäume am Wasser

Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Bäume am Wasser
signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, numbered and inscribed '1933 H 2 Bäume am Wasser' (on the artist's mount)
pastel and gouache on linen laid down on the artist's mount
image: 16 x 18 ½ in. (40.8 x 47 cm.)
artist's mount: 18 x 22 in. (45.5 x 56 cm.)
Executed in 1933

Provenance

Lily Klee, Bern, by descent from the artist in 1940.
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, by whom acquired from the above on 20 September 1946, and until circa 1950.
Werner Allenbach, Bern, by whom acquired from the above circa 1950, and until 1956.
Galerie Berggruen & Cie. (Heinz Berggruen), Paris, by 1956.
S. McLeod, New York, by 1956.
Galerie Nathan [Dr Fritz Nathan], Zurich, until 1959.
World House Galleries [Herbert Mayer], New York, by whom acquired from the above on 4 June 1959, and until at least 1960.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1962, lot 178.
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (no. 1822), by whom acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, Europe.

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