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 - 7 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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| 1924 Warm watercolour on paper 36.8 x 25.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1924 Warmed Cool watercolour and India ink on paper 24.5 x 33.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1924-25 Contrasts in the Evening - Blue and Orange watercolour, gouache, pen and ink and pencil on Ingres paper mounted on cardboard 22 x 34 cm |
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| 1925 Ancient Sound, Abstract on Black oil on cardboard 38.1 x 38.1 cm Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1925 May Picture oil on cardboard 42.2 x 49.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1925 Ass lithograph 24 x 14.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1925 Configuration Perspective oil on paper mounted on cardboard 31 x 25.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1925 Contemplation at Breakfast watercolour on gouache on paper mounted on cardboard 23.5 x 28.2 cm State Museum, Berlin, Germany |
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| 1925 Country House in the North oil on paper 35.2 x 43.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1925 Early Morning in Ro... watercolour on paper on board 41.9 x 54 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1925 Fish Image mixed media on cardboard 60.5 x 40 cm |
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| 1925 Fish Magic oil and watercolour on panel 77.1 x 98.4 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1925 Forest Architecture pen and watercolour on paper mounted on cardboard 31 x 21 cm Private Collection |
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| 1925 Forest in G watercolour, pen and ink on paper mounted on cardboard 13.7 x 32.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1925 Ghost Chamber with the Tall Door ( New Version ) sprayed and brushed watercolour, and transferred printing ink on paper, bordered with gouache and ink, mounted on cardboard 61 x 42.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1925 Horizon, Zenith and Atmosphere watercolour and graphite on paper, mounted on paperboard 37.1 x 27 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1925 Horse and Man oil transfer, ink, and watercolour on paper mounted on board 34 x 50.2 cm San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA |
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| 1925 Houses in the Park watercolour on paper mounted on board 23.5 x 15.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1925 In Memory of an All-Girl Band ink and graphite on paper, bordered with metallic paint and ink, mounted on cardboard 27.3 x 32.4 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1925 In the Manner of a Leather Tapestry ink and spattered tempera on paper, mounted on cardboard 32.1 x 24.4 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1925 Night Impression of a Southern Town pen and ink and ink wash on paper 41 x 22.7 cm ( image ) |
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| 1925 Oriental Pleasure Garden oil on cardboard 41.3 x 52.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1925 Rock-Cut Temple pen and black ink on buff laid paper, laid down on artist's mount comprised of cream wove card ruled in pen and black ink 16.4 x 26.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1925 Small Landscape with Village Church oil on cardboard 20.7 x 18.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1925 Small Portrait of a Girl in Yellow gypsum and oil on canvas 23.8 x 21.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1925 Stage Rehearsal watercolour, pen and ink on paper mounted on cardboard 46.4 x 28.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1925 Still Life with Fragments oil and watercolour on cardboard 43.1 x 72.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1925 The Goldfish oil and watercolour on paper, mounted on cardboard 48.6 x 68.6 cm Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany |
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| 1925 Three Gentle Words of a Fool pen and ink on paper 27.5 x 22.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1925 View of a Fortress sprayed watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper mounted on cardboard 27.9 x 40.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1925 Wintery Mask watercolour on wove paper, laid down on cardboard 53.5 x 34.6 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| 1925 Woman Reading oil transfer and watercolour on paper with laid texture solidly mounted on thin cardboard 31.8 x 47.9 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1926 "Florentine" Residential District oil on cardboard 49.5 x 36.5 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris |
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| 1926 Animal Terror tempera on canvas 35.2 x 48.4 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1926 Around the Fish oil and tempera on canvas mounted on cardboard 46.7 x 63.8 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1926 Arrival of the Jugglers oil on incised putty on cardboard mounted on cardboard 17.4 x 27.3 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1926 Castle to be Built in the Woods watercolour and opaque white on primed paper bordered with pen and gouache, mounted on card 24.8 x 38 cm Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung |
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| 1926 Cathedral watercolour and oil on paper mounted on cardboard, mounted on wood panel 29.8 x 35.2 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1926 Collection of Figurines oil on canvas 26.7 x 24.8 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1926 Demon as Pirate gouache on paper mounted on board 29.8 x 43.2 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1926 Gate in the Garden oil paint on cardboard nailed on a stretcher 54.7 x 44 cm Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland |
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| 1926 Glance of a Landscape watercolour, sprayed through stencils and brushed, on paper, mounted on board 30.2 x 46 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1926 Inscription watercolour and ink on paper, mounted on paperboard 23.5 x 14.6 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1926 Magic Garden oil on plaster-filled wire mesh in artist's frame 52.1 x 42.2 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1926 Searching for Shelter watercolour and pen and ink on paper mounted on card 29.9 x 46.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1926 Serpent's Prey pen and ink 24.3 x 31.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1926 Settlement by the Quarry oil on card 23 x 29.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1926 Suburban Idyll ( Garden City Idyll ) oil and scratch marks on putty sand primer on gypsum board 42.5 x 39.5 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1926 Tablet of the Young Wood oil and incising on plaster-primed muslin mounted on card 35 x 25.5 cm Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany |
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| 1926 The Protector ink on paper laid down on board 30 x 48.7 cm Tate, London |
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| 1926 Village Carnival oil on canvas on panel 65.2 x 44 cm ( image ) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1927 Afbahrender Steamer oil on board mounted on board 23.3 x 39.4 cm Private Collection |