Paul Klee (1879 – 1940) was a Swiss German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored colour theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humour and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
For more biographical notes see part 1. For earlier works by Klee see parts 1 - 4 also.
Note: A lot of artwork descriptions finish with “mounted on card.” Klee would mount a large proportion of his work onto cardboard, where he would draw a line beneath the work, and add the title / date / description of the work.
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| 1921 Architecture in Red and Green watercolour, pen and ink and pencil on paper 14.7 x 26.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1921 Architecture watercolour and black ink transfer on cream laid paper, laid down on cream card 24 x 21.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Il |
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| 1921 Autumnal Place watercolour on paper 33 x 22.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1921 City in the Intermediate Realm oil transfer drawing and watercolour on paper mounted on card 31.3 x 48 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1921 Cold City watercolour on paper mounted on maroon paper mounted on cardboard 27 x 36.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1921 Comedy watercolour and oil paint on paper 30.5 x 45.4 cm Tate, London |
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| 1921 Comic Rider pen and ink on laid paper, laid down on mount 23.7 x 26.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1921 Crystal Gradation watercolour on paper, bordered with brush and quill, mounted on cardboard 24 x 31.3 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1921 Distillation of Pears transfer drawing, pen and watercolour on paper, bordered with watercolour and pen, mounted on card 25.7 x 36 cm Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen |
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| 1921 Dream City watercolour and oil 46.3 x 31.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1921 Dry-Cool Garden watercolour on paper, edged with strips of silver paper, mounted on cardboard 24.1 x 30.5 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1921 Fire Clown watercolour on paper, laid down on cardboard 21 x 17.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1921 Fortress watercolour on joined paper mounted on card 24.5 x 18. cm Private Collection |
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| 1921 Goldfish Wife watercolour on paper, mounted on board 35.2 x 51.4 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1921 Gradation, Red-Green watercolour on laid paper, with pen and black ink and wash extended onto mount 23.5 x 30.5 cm Morgan Library & Museum, New York |
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| 1921 Head of a Robber oil on paper 26.8 x 21.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1921 Hexen Scene oil on canvas 32 x 24.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1921 Hoffmannesque Scene lithograph in gold, maroon, brown and black 47.5 x 26.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1921 Tale à la Hoffmann ( variation of the above ) watercolour, graphite, and transferred printing ink on paper bordered with metallic foil, mounted on cardboard 40.3 x 32.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1921 Landscape near E. oil and pen on paper on card 49.8 x 35.2 cm |
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| 1921 Night Feast oil on paper, mounted on cardboard painted with oil, mounted on board 36.9 x 49.8 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1921 Picture of a City ( Red-Green Accents ) oil on plaster-primed gauze bordered with gouache, mounted on card 42 x 42.5 cm Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany |
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| 1921 Portrait of a Violet-Eyed Woman watercolour, pen and ink on paper 22.2 x 19.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1921 Portrait of a Yellow Man watercolour, transferred printing ink, and ink on paper mounted on cardboard 58.7 x 41.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1921 Queen of Hearts lithograph 25.6 x 17.6 cm ( plate ) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1921 Ripening Growth watercolour over pencil and collage on board 41.9 x 23.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1921 Room Perspective Red / Green watercolour, ink and pencil on wove paper mounted over India ink on paper strips, mounted on card 20 x 26.4 cm Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA |
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| 1921 Runner at the Goal watercolour and graphite on paper, mounted on cardboard with gouache border 39.4 x 30.5 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1921 Saint of Inner Light colour lithograph 58.7 x 48.9 cm ( framed ) Dallas Museum of Art, Texas |
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| 1921 Saint of Inner Light lithograph 28.6 x 15.8 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1921 The Angler oil transfer drawing, watercolour and ink on paper with watercolour and ink borders on board 50.5 x 31.8 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1921 The Arrow before the Target oil transfer drawing and watercolour on paper on board 23.8 x 31.8 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1921 The Man Under the Pear Tree watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper, bordered with metallic foil, mounted on cardboard 45.1 x 34.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1921 The Pathos of Fertility watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper, bordered with ink 51.1 x 40.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1921 The Saint of the Inner Light lithograph with brown background 39 x 26.8 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1921 Three Houses oil paint and gouache on paper, mounted on board 19.4 x 42.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1921 Transparent-Perspectivisch Gefügt ( I ) watercolour on joined paper mounted on cardboard 21.1 x 15.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1921 Tropical Twilight oil on white primer on paper on cardboard 33.5 x 23 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1921 Where the Eggs and the Good Roast Come From watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper mounted on cardboard 19.1 x 32.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1921 Wild Berry watercolour and pencil on paper, cut and rearranged, with gouache pen and ink on cardboard 35.7 x 27 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1921 Winter Journey watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper, bordered with ink, mounted on cardboard 45.4 x 32.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1921 Yellow Harbour watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper mounted on cardboard 39.7 x 56.8 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1922 A Young Lady’s Adventure watercolour on paper 62.5 x 48 cm Tate, London |
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| 1922 Aeolian Harp pen and ink and pencil on paper mounted on cardboard 9.9 x 20.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1922 Agricultural Experimental Plan for Late Autumn watercolour with ink on paper 18.9 x 30.6 cm Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine |
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| 1922 Bewitched Animals graphite on paper, laid down on original mount 21 x 25 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1922 Chinese Novella watercolour and pencil on paper mounted on cardboard 25.7 x 32.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1922 Dance You Monster to My Soft Song! oil and oil transfer drawing on plaster-primed gauze, with watercolour and ink on paperboard mount 35.2 x 29.2 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1922 Dying Plants watercolour, pencil. and ink on paper with watercolour borders on board 64.8 x 47.9 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1922 Fate of Two Sisters oil and gouache on paper mounted on card 31.6 x 46.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1922 Fateful Hour at Quarter to Twelve oil on chalk-primed muslin mounted on panel 40.8 x 48 cm Private Collection |
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| 1922 Female Jumping Jack graphite pencil on cream wove paper mounted on thin cardboard 28.9 x 22.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1922 Festival of the Lanterns, Bauhaus lithograph in black with additions of red and yellow watercolour on cream coloured postcard paper 8.9 x 14.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Il |
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| 1922 Fire Wind pencil on paper, mounted on cardboard 28 x 22.3 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |