Live Auction 10336Impressionist/Modern Day Sale
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Lot 476 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Nacktes Bild

Closed5 February 2015

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GBP 266,500

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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Nacktes Bild
signed 'Klee' (upper right); dated and numbered '1938 N 2' (lower left, on the artist's mount) and titled 'nacktes Bild' (lower right, on the artist's mount)
oil on jute laid down on the artist's mount
25 3/4 x 15 1/8 in. (65.5 x 38.5 cm.) the canvas
27 3/8 x 19 1/2 in. (69.5 x 49.5 cm.) the mount
Painted in 1938

Lily Klee, Bern, by descent from the artist in 1940.
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, by 1946.
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris.
A. Thurstrup collection, Djursholm, Sweden.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by 1969.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired from the above on 15 June 1971, and thence by descent.