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 - 5 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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| 1922 Flower Family V screenprint 24.1 x 16.2 cm ( image ) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1922 Flowers in the Wind watercolour and ink on paper mounted on board 30.5 x 21 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1922 Foolery lithograph on chalk paper 29.6 x 25 cm ( sheet ) Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1922 Fright of a Girl watercolour, India ink and oil transfer drawing on paper, with India ink on paper mount 29.7 x 22 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1922 Ghost of a Genius oil transfer and watercolour on paper laid on card 50 x 35.4 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
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| 1922 Growth of the Night Plants oil on cardboard 47.2 x 33.9 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany |
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| 1922 Harbinger of Autumn watercolour and pencil on paper bordered with watercolour and pen, mounted on card 24.3 x 31.4 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| 1922 Mural from the Temple of Longing Thither watercolour and transferred printing ink on gesso on fabric mounted on cardboard 30.2 x 39.4 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1922 Old Steamboat oil transfer drawing and watercolour on laid paper, on board 15.8 x 16.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1922 Overture watercolour, gold paint, pen and ink and pencil collage on paper laid on artist's original mount 25 x 34 cm Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| 1922 Plants in Moonlight pen and black ink, watercolour, and gouache on laid paper mounted on thin cardboard 24.4 x 15.9 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1922 Popular Wall-Painting gouache and graphite on paper, bordered with gouache, mounted on cardboard 47.6 c 28.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1922 Red Balloon oil ( and oil transfer drawing? ) on chalk-primed gauze, mounted on board 31.7 x 31.1 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1922 Scene Based on the Ballet "The False Oath" watercolour and pencil on paper mounted on cardboard 48 x 31 cm Private Collection |
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| 1922 Scene on the Water watercolour, pen and black ink on paper mounted on cardboard 23.6 x 22 cm Private Collection |
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| 1922 Scherzo with Thirteen oil transfer drawing, watercolour, ink and pencil on paper mounted on board 27.9 x 35.9 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1922 Separation in the Evening watercolour 23.5 x 33.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1922 Small Fir Tree oil on nettle cloth on cardboard 31.6 x 20.2 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1922 Small Picture of a Regatta watercolour on paper 14.6 x 22.8 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1922 Soon to be Aged oil on chalk base on gauze on cardboard, original, yellow frame 40.3 x 37.4 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1922 Steamer at Lugano lithograph 20.8 x 28.9 cm ( plate ) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1922 Steamer at Lugano lithograph 27.6 x 38.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1922 Storage watercolour and pen and black ink on paper mounted on card 19.5 x 9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1922 The Chair-Animal watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper, bordered with gouache, mounted on cardboard 47.6 x 61.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1922 The Firmament above the Temple watercolour, pen and ink, and graphite on paper, bordered with gouache and ink, mounted on cardboard 21 x 36.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1922 The Heroic Tenor as a Concert Singer watercolour amd oil transfer on paper mounted on cardboard 28.1 x 39.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1922 The Last Adventure of the Knight Errant ink on paper mounted on cardboard The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1922 The Wild Man pencil, oil transfer, watercolour and gouache on plaster coated gauze, on paper 58.6 x 38.8 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1922 The Witch with the Comb lithograph 40 x 28.2 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1922 Three Houses watercolour on paper, bordered with watercolour, mounted on cardboard 24.4 x 34.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1922 Twittering Machine oil transfer drawing, watercolour and ink on paper with gouache and ink borders on board 64.1 x 48.3 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1922 Vocal Fabric of the Singer Rosa Silber watercolour and ink on plastered fabric mounted on board, with watercolour and ink borders 62.3 x 52.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1922 Wallflower watercolour and pen and brown ink with graphite underdrawing on paper 25.8 x 30.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1922 Witch with Comb lithograph printed in black ink on yellowish Japan paper 30.8 x 21.3 cm ( plate ) Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1922 Young Lady's Adventure watercolour and pen on paper with gouache and pen marginal stripes, mounted on card 43.8 x 32.1 cm Tate, London |
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| 1923 Architecture of the Plain watercolour and pencil on paper with watercolour and pen marginal stripes, mounted on card 28 x 18 cm Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie Sammlung Berggruen |
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| 1923 Assyrian Game Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern |
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| 1923 Before the Lightning watercolour and pencil on paper, top and bottom edges with gouache, watercolour, and quill on cardboard 28 x 31. cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1923 Big Ones and Little Ones oil transfer drawing 31.6 x 22.5 cm The Morgan Library & Museum, New York |
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| 1923 Captive Pierrot oil transfer, watercolour, and black ink on heavy paper mounted on grey cardboard; decorative border of watercolour and black ink surrounds mounted sheet 39.7 x 30.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1923 Carnival in the Snow watercolour on paper 24 x 23.5 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1923 Christmas Picture watercolour, gouache, and pen and black ink on paper, mounted on board 21.9 x 34.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1923 Classical Grotesque watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper mounted on cardboard 27.6 x 33.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1923 Dance of the Moth oil transfer drawing, pencil and watercolour on paper with watercolour, pen and gouache marginal stripes, mounted on card 51.5 x 32.5 cm Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, , Nagoya |
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| 1923 Diavolo Player gouache and watercolour over oil transfer on paper, mounted on board 32.7 x 22.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1923 Episode before an Arab Town watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper, bordered with gouache and ink, mounted on cardboard 25.4 x 32.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1923 Flowers on Pots watercolour over lithograph on paper, mounted on board 24.4 x 13.3 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1923 Girl with Doll Carriage oil transfer drawing and watercolour with watercolour borders on board 49.2 x 29.2 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1923 House Spirit oil, tempera and pen and India ink on board on painted card 32.5 x 27.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1923 Man in Love ( from the portfolio Meistermappe des Staatlichen Bauhauses ) colour lithograph printed in red and black inks 27.5 x 19 cm ( plate ) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1923 Open-Air Sport pen and black ink and watercolour on paper mounted on thin cardboard 22.9 x 25.4 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1923 Picture of a Garden in Dark Colours watercolour and gouache on paper mounted on cardboard 25.1 x 32.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1923 Port Scene ( Harbour Scene ) watercolour on primed paper on cardboard Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland |