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Three times Three crosses

Lost Art-ID
583027
Artist
Klee, Paul
Birth
1879.12.18, Münchenbuchsee
Death
1940.06.29, Muralto
Place of activity
Bern; München; Weimar; Dessau; Düsseldorf
Title
Three times Three crosses
Datierung
1925
Object type
Watercolour
Group of reported objects
Graphic
Material / Technique
Watercolour and ink pen on paper, edged with paper stripes, on canvas
Height
24.20 cm
Width
23.50 cm
Inventory number
NG MB 132/2000
Description

Signed lower left: Klee, inscribed lower left: 1925 K6, inscribed on the reverse of an inserted piece of the original stretcher frame: Klee 1925.K.6. Three times three crosses; catalogue of works: Klee Cat. raisonné, vol. 4, p. 291, no. 3697, fig.; reverse: adhesive label of the Curt Valentin Gallery, below another adhesive label with artist and title as well as the signatures "Th AX", written with white chalk: "Hold" (?), in black letters artist, year title as well as the signature "K.6 "(also on front), sticky note of The London Gallery, number "32" with dark pencil, "Thompson" with pencil, some torn paper remains

Provenance

1925 to 1929 Paul Klee, Weimar and Dessau

1927 Gallery Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf (in commission)

1927 to 1928 New Art Fides (Rudolf Probst), Dresden (in commission)

1928 to 1929 Gallery Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin (in Kommssion)

1929 to o. J. Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin

until 1935 Dr. Bernatti

1935 to o. J. The Mayor Gallery, London

1941 to n/a at the latest The Leicester Galleries (Ernest Brown & Phillips, Ltd.), London

earliest 1946 to o. J. The London Gallery, London

at least 1951 to presumably 1955 Curt Valentin Gallery, New York

probably 1955 to 1965 G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh

1965 to 23.3.1966 NL G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh

probably until 1998 Harry Torczyner, New York

1998 Marcelle Torczyner, New York

1998 to 2000 Heinz Berggruen

Literature / Source
Paul Klee, Ausst.-Kat. Galerie Flechtheim Berlin, Berlin 1929; An Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolours by Paul Klee, Ausst.-Kat. Leicester Galleries London, London 1941; Aukt.-Kat. Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. New York: The Collection of Twentieth Century Paintings and Sculptures Formed by the Late G. David Thompson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, New York 23.3.1966; Stefan Frey, Wolfgang Kersten: Paul Klees geschäftliche Verbindung zur Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, in: Hans-Albert Peters (Hrsg.), Alfred Flechtheim. Sammler, Kunsthändler, Verleger, Ausst.-Kat., Düsseldorf/Münster 1987/88, S. 64–91; Picasso und seine Zeit, Bestandskatalog Museum Berggruen, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 2013;
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Contact
Dr. Joachim Jäger
Leiter der Neuen Nationalgalerie
Phone
+49 (0)30 266 42 4540
nng@smb.spk-berlin.de
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