Candide Scizze on the earthquake

Klee, Paul
Candide Scizze on the earthquake

1911
Pen and ink drawing on linen paper, mounted on cardboard
5.2 : 15.8 cm (backing board: 21.5 : 29.5 cm)
Signed ‘Klee’ in pen upper right, dated, titled and inscribed (with work number) ‘Candide Scizze zum Erdbeben 1911 105’ on the backing board
Catalogue raisonné 700 – Oeuvre cat. Klee 1911,105

With a Certificate of Authenticity from the Paul Klee Foundation, Bern, 22 May 1991.

Provenance:
– Felix Klee Collection (according to purchase invoice, not mentioned in the catalogue raisonné)
– Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, auction, 18 June 1970, no. 667
– Kornfeld & Cie, Bern, auction, 20 June 1973, no. 411
_ Sotheby’s, London, auction 16 October 1991, no. 44
– Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel GmbH, Düsseldorf (acquired there on 6 January 1992)
– Private collection, Germany

Exhibition:
Winterausstellung 1991/1992, Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf, winter 1991/92, no. 34

Price on request