Live Auction 2783Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
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Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Zerbrechliches Ubermütig

Closed9 May 2013

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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Zerbrechliches Ubermütig
signed 'Klee' (upper right); dated, numbered and titled '1937 S. 9. zerbrechliches übermütig' (on the artist's mount)
colored wax crayons on paper mounted on card
Sheet size: 10 5/8 x 16 7/8 in. (27 x 43 cm.)
Mount size: 13 1/8 x 19 in. (33.4 x 48.2 cm.)
Executed in 1937

Lily Klee, Bern (1940).
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946).
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Morton G. Schamberg, Highland Park, Illinois.
Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva.
Saidenberg Gallery, Inc., New York (by 1957).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1961.