Paul KLEE (1879-1940) - Lot 46

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Paul KLEE (1879-1940) - Lot 46
Paul KLEE (1879-1940) Kleiner Aufruhr (Small Revolt) Pen on paper mounted on cardboard, signed lower left, dated 1932, no. 18, and titled lower middle. Bucholz Gallery label, Curt Valentin, no. 11734. 17.5 x 28 cm Provenance: - Lily Klee, Bern (1940-1946); - Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-1950) ; - Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery; Valentin Gallery), Berlin/New York, circa 1950 ; - Mary Gallery, Glen Cove; - Charbonneaux sale, Paris, Drouot Richelieu, Tableaux modernes et contemporains, June 18, 1990, lot no. 5, iillustrated in color; - Collection of Monsieur L. ; - By descent to the present owner. Bibliography : - Enrique Mayer, Le Livre international des ventes : estampes, dessins, aquarelles, peintures, sculptures, 1991, page 505. - Helfenstein, 1995, S. 103. - The Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: Catalogue raisonné 1931-1933, Bern, Thames and Hudson, 2002, no. 5794, reproduced in black and white, page 194. Born in Switzerland but active in Germany, Paul Klee was associated with the Blaue Reiter and taught at the Bauhaus in 1930, developing a profoundly original body of work at the crossroads of abstraction and figuration. His work is also characterized by a poetic universe of signs and simplified forms. These characteristics of Klee's art are perfectly apparent in Kleiner Aufruhr, which we present here. Indeed, although it depicts a riot, it is not so much human beings as signs and figurines that could have been made of matches or lead that stand out. A surreal dehumanization, characteristic of an era troubled by the 1929 crisis that hit Germany hard and whose dark hours were yet to come. Influenced by music, Klee conceived his compositions as visual scores, in which rhythm and harmony play an essential role, an aspect of his work that is also evident in the horizontality of Kleiner Aufruhr's writing.
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