PAUL KLEE (1879-1940)
Hitze (Heat), 1940
Coloured pastel on paper laid down on the artist's mount
sheet: 47.8 by 62.3 cm. 18⅞ by 24½ in.
mount: 49.6 by 69.6 cm. 19½ by 27⅜ in.
mount: 49.6 by 69.6 cm. 19½ by 27⅜ in.
Provenance
- Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the artist in 1940)
- Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946 and until circa 1950)
- Hans and Erika Meyer-Benteli, Bern (acquired from the above circa 1950-52)
- Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired from the above in 1966)
- Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1967)
- Christie’s, London, 4 February 2015, lot 5 (consigned by the heir of the above) (1.062.357 USD)
- Private collection (acquired from the above)
- Sotheby’s London, 25 June 2024, lot 35 (577.946 USD)
Exhibitions
- Bern, Kunsthalle, Gedächtnisausstellung Paul Klee, 1940, no. 187
- Bern, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee. Das Schaffen im Todesjahr, 1990, no. 252, p. 230, illustrated in colour
Publications
- Stefan Frey and Josef Helfenstein, eds., Paul Klee: Verzeichnis der Werke des Jahres 1940, Stuttgart, 1991, p. 165, illustrated
- The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. 9, 1940, Bern, 2005, no. 9283, p. 173, illustrated; p. 181, illustrated in colour
- Josef Helfenstein, “Beschleunigung der Geschichte. Zeichen und Linie im Spätwerk Klees,” in Iris Lauterbach and Margret Stuffmann, eds., Aspekte deutscher Zeichenkunst, Munich, 2006, p. 192
- Brigitte Uhde-Stahl, Paul Klees geheime Symbolik, Berlin, 2018, p. 317