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Paul Klee

Hitze (Heat)

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Swiss-German | B. 1879 D. 1940

signed ‘Klee’ upper right; numbered and dated ‘1940 L4’ lower left and titled ‘Hitze’ lower right
coloured pastel on paper, laid down on artist’s mount
sheet 47.8 x 62.3 cm (18 7/8 x 24 1/2 in.)
mount 49.6 x 69.6 cm (19 1/2 x 27 3/8 in.)
Executed in 1940.

Provenance

Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the artist in 1940)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946 and until circa 1950)
Hans and Erika Meyer-Benteli, Bern (acquired from the above circa 1950-52)
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired from the above in 1966)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1967)
Christie’s, London, 4 February 2015, lot 5 (consigned by the heir of the above)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby’s, London, 25 June 2024, lot 35
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Stefan Frey and Josef Helfenstein, eds., Paul Klee: Verzeichnis der Werke des Jahres 1940, Stuttgart, 1991, p. 165 (illustrated)
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. 9, 1940, Bern, 2005, no. 9283, pp. 173 and 181 (illustrated, p. 181)
Josef Helfenstein, “Beschleunigung der Geschichte. Zeichen und Linie im Spätwerk Klees,” in Iris Lauterbach and Margret Stuffmann, eds., Aspekte deutscher Zeichenkunst, Munich, 2006, p. 192
Brigitte Uhde-Stahl, Paul Klees geheime Symbolik, Berlin, 2018, p. 317

Literature

Bern, Kunsthalle, Gedächtnisausstellung Paul Klee, 1940, no. 187
Bern, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee. Das Schaffen im Todesjahr, 1990, no. 252, p. 230 (illustrated)

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