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Property from the Collection of Geoffrey M. And Carol D. Chinn

Paul Klee

Fliehende Mädchen (Fleeing Girl)

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

18,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Geoffrey M. And Carol D. Chinn

Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

 

Fliehende Mädchen (Fleeing Girl)

signed Klee (lower right); dated 1930, titled and inscribed R. 6. (on the artist's mount) 

pen and ink on paper mounted on card 

sheet: 14 ⅞ by 11 ¼ in. 37.8 by 28.6 cm.  

mount: 20 ⅞ by 16 ⅝ in. 53 by 42.2 cm. 

Executed in 1930. 

Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the artist in 1940) 

Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946) 

Karl Nierendorf, Cologne, Berlin and New York (acquired by 1947) 

Estate of the above

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (acquired by 1948 and until 1971) 

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired by 1972 and until 1973) 

Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York and London (acquired circa 1973) 

Private Collection, New York (acquired by 1985) 

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner 

Will Grohmann, Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen II, 1921 - 1930, Bergen, 1934, no. 27, p. 36  

Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné 1927-1930, vol. V, Bern, 2000, no. 5202, p. 464, illustrated 

New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, Paul Klee (1879-1940), 1987, no. 9