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Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
PAUL KLEE Clown und Tier.
Pencil on cream wove paper, 1933. 447x348 mm; 17 5/8x13 3/4 inches (mount). Signed in ink, lower left recto, and signed, dated and inscribed "T 12" in ink, lower center recto on the artist's original mount.
Ex-collection Ida Bienert, Dresden/München; Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery; Valentin Gallery), Berlin/New York; World House Galleries, New York (-1966); Galerie Weiss-Hesse, Olten (1966); Raymond & Raymond of Hartford Art Galleries (1966); private collection, West Hartford (since 1966).
Exhibited "Fifty Drawings by Paul Klee," Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York, October 26-November 13, 1948, number 46; "An Exhibit of Thirty Drawings by Paul Klee," Main Street Gallery, Chicago, September 10-November 15, 1950, number 27; "Paul Klee, Watercolors and Drawings," World House Galleries, New York, April 22-May 17, 1958, number 43; "Paul Klee 1933, Städtische," Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München, February 8-May 4, 2003; Kunstmuseum Bern, June 4-August 17, 2003; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt/M., September 18-November 20, 2003; Hamburger Kunsthalle, December 11, 2003-March 7, 2004.
Published in The Paul Klee Foundation (Editors), Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, Bern, 2002, number 6218; Kort, Paul Klee 1933, 2003; Kort, "Paul Klee und die Zeichnungen zur 'nationalsozialistischen Revolution'," 2003; and Frey and Hünecke, Paul Klee, Kunst und Politik in Deutschland 1933, 2003.
