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Paul Klee

Münchenbuchsee 1879 – 1940 Muralto near Locarno

”Wind von links unten”. 1923

Oil tracing and watercolour on laid paper on cardboard. 37,4 × 24,8 cm (43,5 × 29,5 cm) (14 ¾ × 9 ¾ in. (17 ⅛ × 11 ⅝ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Paul Klee. ”Wind von links unten”. 1923.

Estimate:

EUR 180,000

 

- 240,000

USD 202,000

 

- 270,000

Sold for:

355,600 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2025

Selected Works, Thursday, 05.06.2025

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Oil tracing and watercolour on laid paper on cardboard. 37,4 × 24,8 cm (43,5 × 29,5 cm) (14 ¾ × 9 ¾ in. (17 ⅛ × 11 ⅝ in.)). Signed upper left in pen in black: Klee. On the cardboard at the bottom centre dated, inscribed and titled in pen and black ink: 1923 117 Wind von links unten. On the cardboard backing labels of the Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, of the New Gallery, New York, of the collector F. C. Schang as well as of the exhibitions Bern 1956 and Jerusalem 1988 (see below). There too two exhibition labels with differing numbers of the Minneapolis Art Institute. Catalogue raisonné: Paul-Klee-Stiftung 3211. The work is registered in the archive of the Paul-Klee-Stiftung, Bern, as number 1923/117. Framed

We would like to thank Dr. Marie Kakinuma, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, for kindly providing additional information.

Lily Klee, Bern (1940–1946) / Klee-Society, Bern (1946–1949) / Galerie Siegfried Rosengart, Lucerne (1949) / Israel Ber Neumann (Graphisches Kabinett, New Art Circle, Neumann Gallery), Berlin/New York (1949 to at the latest 1951) / Frederik C. Schang, South Norwalk/New York (earliest 1951 to at the latest 1959) / Eugene Victor Thaw & Co., New York / The New Gallery, New York / Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills / Norman Granz, London/Breganzona/Beverly Hills/Geneva (to 1966) / Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired 1966 at Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern) / Private Collection, Berlin (acquired 1997 at Grisebach, Berlin)

Paul Klee. Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, 1924 / Paul Klee. Zweite Gesamtausstellung 1920–1925. 100. Ausst. München, Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, 1925, Nr. 92 / Paintings by Paul Klee 1879–1940. Palm Beach, Society of the 4 Arts, 1951, Nr. 23 / Paul Klee. Collection of F. C. Schang. South Norwalk, 1952, Nr. 11 / Paul Klee. Collection of F. C. Schang. South Norwalk, 1953, Nr. 19 / 40 Works by Paul Klee from the Collection of F. C. Schang. Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1955, no. 11 / Paul Klee, Ausstellung in Verbindung mit der Paul-Klee-Stiftung. Bern, Kunstmuseum, 1956, cat. no. 498 / Third Bi-Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Paul Klee. New York, Saidenberg Gallery, 1957, cat. no. 16 / Paul Klee (1879–1940). Collection of F. C. Schang. New York, 111 West 57th Street, 1959, Nr. 15 / Monet to Matisse, Modern Masters from Swiss Private Collections. Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 1988, p. 74, ill. p. 75 / Malerei im Prisma. Freundeskreis Sonia und Robert Delaunay. Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, 1991, p. 188, ill. p. 189

F. C. Schang: Paul Klee (1879–1940), Collection of F. C. Schang. New York, 1955, no. 15 / F. C. Schang: Paul Klee (1879–1940), Collection of F. C. Schang. New York, 1957, no. 17 / Auktion 121: Moderne Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Bern, Kornfeld & Klipstein, 1966, cat. no. 481, w. ill. / Mark Rosenthal: Paul Klee’s „Tightrope-Walker“. An Exercise in Balance. In: Arts Magazine. vol. 53, no. 1, September 1978, p. 106–111, here p. 111 / Mark Rosenthal: Paul Klee and the Arrow. Dissertation, The University of Iowa, 1979, p. 155, w. ill. / Auktion 56: Ausgewählte Werke. Berlin, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, 30.5.1997, cat. no. 44, w. ill. / Shelly Cordulac: Navigating Klee. In: Pantheon, 56. Jg., 1998, p. 141–153, here p. 144 / Katja Schenker: Titel-Bild-Gedicht. Paul Klee, „Einst dem Grau der Nacht enttaucht …“ 1918.17. In: Georges-Bloch-Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Universität Zürich, vol. 5, 1998, p. 137–155, here p. 141 / Brigitte Uhde-Stahl: Paul Klees geheime Symbolik. Berlin, Gebr. Mann, 2018, p. 151

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