Live Auction 14240Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Lot 120 WORKS ON PAPER FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AVANT-GARDES
The Collection of a Scholar, Sold to Benefit Humanitarian Causes

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Ein Stich (A Sting)

Closed28 June 2017

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GBP 50,000

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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Ein Stich (A Sting)
signed 'Klee' (lower right); dated, numbered and inscribed '1931 M 2. ein Stich' (on the artist's mount)
watercolour and pen and India ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount
sheet: 12 5/8 x 19 1/8 in. (32 x 48.6 cm.)
mount: 17 ½ x 24 5/8 in. (44.4 x 62.6 cm.)
Executed in 1931

Hans and Erika Meyer-Benteli, Bern.
Gakerie Rosengart, Lucerne, by 1955.
Galerie Jacques Benador, Geneva, by 1961.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Motte, Geneva, 1 November 1963, lot 120.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Motte, Geneva, 27 November 1965, lot 96.
Galerie du Perron, Geneva.
Anonymous sale, Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 12 June 1969, lot 653.
Landau Fine Art, Montreal.
Heinz Berggruen, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 November 1972, lot 60.
Waddington Galleries Ltd, London.
Anonymous sale, Fischer Fine Art, London, October 1974, lot 59.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 26 March 1980, lot 222.
Fischer Fine Art Ltd, London
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1984, lot 362.
Galleria Blu, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.