Duettino der Passanten. 1938.
Mixed media. Paste color on sketching paper on cardboard .
Signed upper right, dated, titled and inscribed “D 14” lower center of the backing board. Sheet: 27 x 20.9 cm (10.6 x 8.2 in). Backing board: 34,3 x 21,9 cm (13,3 x 8,5 in).

• Paul Klee is one of the most influential artists of Modernism.
• A prime example of Paul Klee's reduction of form and color in the late 1930s.
• He easily develops “Duettino der Passanten” from brushstrokes and color.
• This sheet was part of the widely acclaimed exhibitions “Klee und Cobra. Ein Kinderspiel” at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern / Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek / CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen (2011/12), and “Paul Klee. FormenSpiele”, Albertina, Vienna (2008)".

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany (inherited in 2015).

EXHIBITION: Paul Klee. Formenspiele, Albertina Vienna, May 9 - Aug. 10, 2008, p. 295 (illustration in color on p. 233).
Klee und Cobra. Ein Kinderspiel, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, May 25-Sept. 4, 2011; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Sept. 30, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012; CoBrA Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, January 26-April 22, 2012, p. 210 (illustration in color on p. 133).

LITERATURE: Paul Klee Foundation, Kunstmuseum Bern (eds. ), Paul Klee. Catalogue raisonné. 1883-1940, Bern 1998-2003, vol. 7, no. 7235.
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Christie's, London, Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, December 3, 1991, lot 158 (ilustrated).
Paul Klee, in: Beiträge zur bildnerischen Formlehre, 1921.