Live Auction 7975Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Lot 206

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Verschlossenes Ohr

Closed22 June 2011

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GBP 30,000

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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Verschlossenes Ohr
signed 'Klee' (lower right) and inscribed 'verschlossenes Ohr' (lower right); dated, numbered and inscribed '1939 CC.9. verschlossenes Ohr' (on the artist's mount)
pencil on paper laid down on the artist's mount
11 7/8 x 8¼ in. (29.7 x 20.9 cm.)
Drawn in 1939

Lily Klee, Bern, from 1940 to 1946.
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, from 1946, and thence to his estate.
Acquired from the above by the late Ernst Beyeler in 2008.