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PAUL KLEE

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PAUL KLEE
(Münchenbuchsee bei Bern 1879-1940 Muralto) Trees, 1931, watercolour, charcoal on paper, with title, signed, dated Klee 1931, marked with work-number N.20 and II, 50 x 65 cm, passe-partout, with frame, (PM). Photo Certificate: Josef Helfenstein, Paul Klee-Foundation, Kunstmuseum Bern, 7 March 1990. Provenance: 1931 acquired from the artist; Galleries Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin & Düsseldorf; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris; Lily Klee, Bern (1940- 1946); Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946); Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris; Rose Fried Gallery, New York; Mr. & Mrs. Walter Pharr, New York; sale Christie's, London, 15 April 1975, lot 63; Professor Carlo Kos, Klagenfurt (Austria); Gallery Thomas, Munich (1989-1990). Exhibited: Berlin, Gallery Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Klee: Neue Bilder und Aquarelle, Nov-Dec. 1931, no. 38; Hartford, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Paul Klee, Jan.-Feb. 1936, no. 41; Stockholm, Svensk- Franska Konstgalleriet, Paul Klee, March 1949, no. 22; New York, Union Club Modern Art, Oct. 1968; Munich, Gallery Thomas, 25 Jahre danach, Feb.-April 1990, no. 8, with colour ill. Literature: D.-H. Kahnweiler, Klee, Paris, 1950, with colour ill. "I would compare the orientation of many aspects of nature and life, their interlacing and branching structure, with the roots of a tree filling the artist and the artist's eye with their sap to the point of overflowing. The artist serves as the tree trunk, swamped and moved by these flowing forces he diverts the visual flow into his work. His work becomes like the crown of a tree, branching out in many directions, both in time and space." These sentences clearly express Klee's frequently-employed analogy between natural phenomena and artistic processes. The image of the flow also reiterates a concept of constant movement which was at the centre of Klee's perspective of nature and the world as a whole, of cosmos and art. (Paul Klee. Wachstum regt sich. Klees Zwiesprache mit der Natur. Saarland-Museum, Saarbrücken; Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe 1990; from an essay by Ernst-Gerhard Güse)
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