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)

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 ink at right edge within the composition, dated and inscribed on the cardboard with work number 1930 O. 10 lower left and titled bewachte Tiere lower right. - The cardboard support with old trimming at edges; the margin faintly browned within former mat opening; the missing left cardboard corners added.

Cat. Rais. Paul Klee 5176 with colour ill. p. 438

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