Paul Klee - Bewachte Tiere, 1930, 60 (O 10) (Guarded Animals) - image-1

Lot 25 D

Paul Klee - Bewachte Tiere, 1930, 60 (O 10) (Guarded Animals)

Auction 972 - overview Cologne
03.12.2010, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 200.000 € - 220.000 €
Result: 240.000 € (incl. premium)

Paul Klee

Bewachte Tiere, 1930, 60 (O 10) (Guarded Animals)
1930

Paste paint on Ingres laid paper 47.1 x 61.3 cm, mounted on cardboard 49.4 x 61.5 cm by the artist Framed under glass. Signed Klee in black pen and ink in right margin within the composition and the cardboard dated and inscribed with the work number 1930 O. 10 lower left and titled bewachte Tiere lower right. - The cardboard with an old trimming at edges; the margin faintly browned and with slight light stain within former mat opening; the missing upper and lower left cardboard corners reattached.

Catalogue Raisonné

Cat. rais. Paul Klee 5176 with colour illus. p. 438

Provenance

Otto Ralfs, Braunschweig (1930); Heinrich und Antonie Kirchhoff, Wiesbaden (until 1934); private possession, South Germany