Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Feier und Untergang

细节

Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Feier und Untergang
signed 'Klee' (lower right), dated, numbered and titled '1920/200 Feier und Untergang' (on a strip of the artist's mount attached to the reverse)
oil on paper laid down on the Artist's original backboard with painted borders
15½ x 10 5/8 in. (39.4 x 27 cm.) with borders
Painted in 1920

来源

Galerie Beyeler, Basle (4391), by whom acquired by the present owner in the 1950s.

出版

Exh. cat., Paul Klee Im Zeichen der Teilung, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Jan.-July 1995, no. 18, p. 162 (illustrated in a general photograph of the Artist's studio, p. 163), and as no. 1900.200 (p. 343) (see illustration below).

展览

Basle, Kunstmuseum, Ausstellung zum 10 Todestag, June-Aug. 1950, no. 9.

拍场告示

Sold with a photo-certificate from the Paul Klee Stiftung dated Berne, 13 May 1997 stating that the work is recorded in the artist's Werkkatalog as No. 1920, 200.

拍品专文

Feier und Untergang belongs to a fascinating group of works executed by Klee throughout his career which he cut and remounted as he worked. The catalogue for the Dusseldorf exhibition titled Paul Klee Im Zeichen der Teilung held at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in April 1995 lists over 100 works which fall into this category. Most were remounted and given inscriptions on the mounts. The most important, as here, were remounted and their margins then painted or worked up to suit the subject.

Feier und Untergang has not been seen in public since it was included in the major Basle retrospective exhibition held in 1950 celebrating the 10th anniversary of the artist's death.