Live Auction 7832Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper
Christie’s roundel
Lot 223

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Madonna

Closed3 February 2010

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GBP 85,250

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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Madonna
signed 'Klee' (lower centre)
oil transfer drawing and watercolour on paper laid down on the artist's mount
Image and artist's mount: 12 5/8 x 8½ in. (32 x 21.8 cm.)
Executed in 1923

Katherine S. Dreier, New York, from 1926 to 1942.
Stephan Lion, New York, by 1942.
Karl Nierendorf, Cologne, Berlin & New York.
Richard Sisson, Los Angeles & New York.
André Emmerich, New York, until 1954.
Saidenberg Gallery, Inc., New York, from 1954 to 1956.
Ceil Cohen, by 1956.
Galerie Berggruen & Cie, Paris, by 1979.
Galerie Boulakia, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

This drawing is related to Madonnenbild, 1918 (The Paul Klee Foundation no. 2053; Paul-Klee-Stiftung, Kunstmuseum Bern).