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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Lot 286 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)

Dämonische Nacht

Closed8 March 2024

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GBP 37,800

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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Dämonische Nacht
signed 'Klee' (lower centre); dated, numbered and inscribed '1939 OP 7 daemonische Nacht' (on the artist's mount)
coloured paste, watercolour and chalk on paper laid down on the artist's mount
sheet: 8 ¼ x 11 ¼ in. (20.5 x 29.4 cm.)
artist's mount: 13 5⁄8 x 16 ¾ in. (34.5 x 42.5 cm.)
Executed in 1939

Lily Klee [the artist's wife], Bern.
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, by whom acquired from the above in 1946.
Buchholz Gallery [Curt Valentin] (no. 14846), Berlin & New York, by 1953.
Henry Margulis, New York.
Ludmilla & Hans Arnhold, New York, and thence by descent.
Private Foundation, Europe, a gift from the above.