PAUL KLEE 1879-1940 (Swiss) Lot n° 159

Maske Unterwasserfuhrer, 1934 pastel crayons on linen mounted on paper 43 x 37 cm (17 x 14 in.) signed upper right, dated, numbered "R12' and titled on artist's mount PROVENANCE: Kleeman Galleries, New York. Arnold Maremont, Chicago. Sale: Sotheby's New York, May, 1974 lot 23. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner. Private collection, New York. EXHIBITION: Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Biennale XXII, Venice,1954 . Paul Klee, Kleeman Galleries, New York, 1955 no.20. The Maremont Collection at the Institute of Design, 196 no. 64. Treasures of 20th Century Art from the Maremont Collection, Washington Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1964. LITERATURE: The Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, Bern, 2003 vol.7 p.113 no. 6690 (illustrated). (*)