Live Auction 12146Impressionist & Modern Art Works on Paper Sale
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Lot 1048 Property from a Private California Collection

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Geister im Purgatorium

Closed17 November 2016

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USD 32,500

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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Geister im Purgatorium
signed 'Klee' (upper right); dated, numbered and titled '1914 121 Geister im Purgatorium' (on the artist's mount)
pen and black ink on paper laid down on card
Sheet size: 4 x 8 7/8 in. (10.2 x 22.7 cm.)
Mount size: 8 5/8 x 12 7/8 in. (21.8 x 32.9 cm.)
Drawn in 1914

Alfred Kubin, Wernstein am Inn, Austria (gift from the artist, May 1915).
Private collection, Berkeley (circa 1945).
By descent from the above to the present owners.

Specialist note

Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern has confirmed that this work is authentic and that it corresponds to no. 1221 currently listed in vol. 2 of the catalogue raisonné.