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 - 6 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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| 1923 Postcard No. 4 for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition, Weimar colour lithograph14.3 x 7.6 cm ( image ) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1923 Puppet Theatre watercolour 51.4 x 37.2 cm |
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| 1923 Scene among Girls oil transfer and watercolour on paper mounted on card 39 x 23.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1923 Scene among Girls watercolour, gouache, ink and pencil on paper on board 50.2 x 32.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1923 Seventeen, Insane pen and watercolour on paper mounted on cardboard 22.3 x 28.6 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1923 Singer of the Comic Opera watercolour and ink on paper, mounted on cardboard 29.2 x 23.5 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1923 South Alpine Place oil, watercolour and gouache on paper mounted on cardboard 34.1 x 30 cm Private Collection |
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| 1923 Static-Dynamic Gradation oil and gouache on paper bordered with gouache, watercolour, and ink, mounted on cardboard 43.5 x 29.2 cm |
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| 1923 Sun in the Gate lithograph on smooth wove paper 22.9 x 26.4 cm |
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| 1923 The Barbed Noose with the Mice watercolour and gouache on paper, bordered with gouache, mounted on cardboard 31.1 x 40 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1923 The Bright Side postcard for "Bauhaus Exhibition Weimar 1923" lithograph 9.8 x 14.4 cm ( plate ) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1923 The House in the Heights gouache on paper on board with black and green wash border 35 x 49.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1923 The Mountain of the Sacred Cat oil transfer drawing, pencil and watercolour on paper |
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| 1923 Tightrope Walker lithograph 43.4 x 27 cm ( plate ) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1923 Tomb in Three Parts watercolour and graphite on paper, mounted on board 33 x 45.1 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1923 Tropical Gardening watercolour and oil transfer drawing on paper, with watercolour on cardboard mount 17.9 x 45.5 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1923 Ventriloquist and Crier in the Moor watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper, bordered with ink, mounted on cardboard 41.9 x 29.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1923 View from a Window ( Island in the North Sea ) watercolour and gouache |
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| 1923 Wintery ( aka Scenic - Abstract ) pen, India ink and watercolour on paper mounted on cardboard 17.4 x 24.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1923-24 Garden on Debris watercolour and black ink transfer on cream wove paper, mounted on cream card 26.8 x 25.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1924 A Pride of Lions ( Take Note! ) watercolour, brush, and ink on paper mounted on cardboard 26.7 x 42.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1924 Actor's Mask oil on canvas mounted on board 36.7 x 33.8 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1924 ARA "Cooling in a Garden of the Torrid Zone" pen and watercolour on paper mounted on card 29.6 x 20.7 cm Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Kupferstichkabinett |
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| 1924 Arabian Bride watercolour and oil on wove papers, mounted on wove papers, mounted on thin cardboard 33.7 x 16.5 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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| 1924 Asiatic God oil and plaster, over gauze, on panel 56.5 x 35.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1924 Astrological Fantasy Portrait gouache on paper, bordered with ink and gouache, mounted on cardboard 37.8 x 27.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1924 Austere Mountain Shape, Crystalline Mountain watercolour and gouache on paper mounted on cardboard 23.6 x 38.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1924 Brief Description of a Mountain Pass watercolour, gouache and pen and ink on paper mounted on cardboard 17.1 x 13.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1924 Cathedral watercolour and oil on paper 29.8 x 35.2 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1924 Curtain watercolour on red paste–primed muslin, with gouache and ink on paperboard mount 18.1 x 9.2 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1924 Dunes Cemetery watercolour and pen and ink on paper mounted on painted cardboard 46.5 x 28.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1924 Flower Garden paste ground, gouache, and incising on paper on board 44.5 x 32.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1924 Garden Still Life oil on paper mounted on cardboard 33.6 x 22.8 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1924 Girl Possessed oil transfer drawing and watercolour on paper on cardboard 44.2 x 29.2 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1924 Head ( As it were a Portrait ) oil and gouache on paper 37.5 x 28.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1924 Jester watercolour, gouache, and graphite pencil on paper with laid texture mounted on thin cardboard 31.4 x 35.6 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1924 Jörg watercolour and pen and black ink on paper, mounted on board 23.3 x 28.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1924 Medicinal Flora watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper, bordered with gouache and ink, mounted on cardboard 31.8 x 40 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1924 Mountain Formation oil transfer drawing, watercolour and pencil on paper mounted on card 41.9 x 38.1 cm Staatsgalerie, Suttgart, Graphische Sammlung |
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| 1924 New House in the Suburbs gouache on canvas 36.4 x 46.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1924 Old City Architecture watercolour and ink with incising on prepared paper on board with ink and watercolour borders 39.7 x 31.7 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1924 Old Love Song watercolour and pen and ink on paper mounted on cardboard 26.7 x 35.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1924 Portrait of Mrs. P. in the South watercolour and oil transfer drawing on paper, with gouache and ink on paperboard mount 37.6 x 27.4 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1924 Portrait Sketch of a Costumed Lady ink and graphite on paper, mounted on board 23.2 x 14.6 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1924 Radiation and Rotation oil on paper mounted on cardboard 35.6 x 52 cm Private Collection |
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| 1924 Ripe Harvest Indian ink and watercolour on paper mounted on card 22.7 x 12.8 cm Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany |
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| 1924 Singed Garden watercolour and black ink transfer, on ivory laid paper, laid down on grey wood-pulp laminate board 23.2 x 30.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1924 Structural I gouache on cardboard, bordered with ink, mounted on cardboard 42.5 x 27 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1924 Study in Chiaroscuro ( Easel Lamp ) watercolour on paper mounted on card 30.5 x 23 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf |
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| 1924 Tannhäuser pen and black ink over charcoal on paper, mounted on board 47 x 30.2 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1924 Tree Culture watercolour and oil transfer drawing on paper, with watercolour on cardboard mount 47.4 x 34.9 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |