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Monday, 24 November 2014, 06:00 pm

Paul Klee, Metamorphose

Lot 51

Paul Klee, 1879-1940 (CH)

Metamorphose, 1915

India ink line on Fabriano, on cardboard.
H 240 mm W 205 mm.

Drawing: H 123 mm W132 mm. Signed upper right: Klee.

*CHF25'000 / 35'000
*EUR22'000 / 30'000
*USD27'000 / 38'000

Hammer Price: CHF 26'000

Annotation:

Dated and inscribed on cardboard lower left: 1915, 123. Titled lower center: Metamorphose.

Provenance:
Hermann und Margrit Rupf, Berne, until 1955;
Berggruen & Cie, Paris, 1955-56;
Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, München, 1956-57;
Important German private collection.

Exhibition:
Düsseldorf, Galerie Alex Vömel.
Zeichnungen von Paul Klee, January 1957, No. 6,

Literature:
Paul-Klee-Stiftung, Kunstmuseum Bern.
Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné. Volume. 2, 1913-1918.
Berne, Benteli, 2000. No. 1456, illustration.