Lot
76R
Münchenbuchsee 1879 – 1940 Muralto near Locarno
”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
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