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PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Schicksalstunde um dreiviertel zwölf
signed, dated and numbered 'Klee 1922 184.' (upper left)
oil on chalk-primed muslin mounted on panel
16 1/8 x 19 in. (41 x 48.2 cm.)
Executed in 1922
Provenance
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris.
Karl Nierendorf, New York (acquired from the above, by 1938).
Duncan and Marjorie Phillips Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above, circa 1939).
Reichenbach collection.
Berggruen et Cie, Paris (acquired from the above, 1955).
Private collection, Europe (acquired from the above, 1956, then by descent); sale, Christie’s, New York, 1 November 2011, lot 5.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
H. Read, "Klee: Imagination and Phantasy" in XXe siècle, 1938, no. 4, p. 34 (illustrated).
K. Nierendorf, ed., Paul Klee Paintings, Watercolors 1913 to 1939, New York, 1941, p. 7 (illustrated, pl. 12).
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee London, 1954, pp. 84, 192, 198 and 392, no. 66 (illustrated, p. 392).
R. Verdi, "Paul Klee's 'Fish Magic': An Interpretation" in The Burlington Magazine, March 1974, pp. 151 and 154, note 20.
M. Rosenthal, "Paul Klee's 'Tightropewalker': An Exercise in Balance" in Arts Magazine, September 1978, p. 111, no. 10.
M.L. Rosenthal, Paul Klee and the Arrow, Ph.D. diss., The University of Iowa, 1979, p. 140.
S.L. Henry, "Paul Klee's Pictorial Mechanics from Physics to the Picture Plane" in Pantheon, 1989, p. 154 (illustrated, fig. 22).
Vergleiche: Wintertag kurz vor Mittag, 1992, no. 2839.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, 1919-1922, Bonn, 1999, vol. 3, p. 448, no. 3009 (illustrated; illustrated again in color, p. 408).
J. Helfenstein and E.H. Turner, ed., Klee and America, exh. cat., The Menil Collection, Houston, 2006, p. 229 (illustrated, fig. 54).
E. Smithgall, "A Little House of Klee at the Phillips: Paul Klee's Legacy on Washington Color-Field Artists" in Ten Americans: After Paul Klee exh. cat., Zentrum Paul Klee Bern, 2017, p. 17.
Exhibited
Stuttgart, Kunstgebäude am Schlossplatz, Neuer deutscher Kunst, May-August 1924, p. 14, no. 91.
Dresden, Graphisches Kabinett Hugo Erfurth and Kunstverein Erfurt, 7 Bauhausmeister, February-April 1925.
Kunsthalle Bern, Paul Klee February-March 1935, p. 3, no. 13.
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Klee October-November 1935, p. 3, no. 10.
Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Paul Klee Fritz Huf April-June 1936, no. 10.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1938 (on loan).
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Collection d'expression française, July-October 1962, p. 18, no. 112 (with incorrect support).
Strasbourg, Château des Rohan, La grande aventure de l'art du XXème siècle, June-September 1963, p. 43, no. 99 (with incorrect support).
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