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 - 8 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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| 1927 Black Knight oil on canvas coated with white tempera mounted on wood 33 x 29 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany |
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| 1927 Carpet Chinese ink on paper mounted on card 23 x 30.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1927 Conjuring Trick oil on cloth mounted on board 49.7 x 41.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1927 Feast Day in Winter pen and ink, watercolour and "spritztechnik on paper mounted on card 14.6 x 29.8 cm |
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| 1927 Follows with Concern, As Both are Blind pen and brown ink on tan laid paper tipped onto tan wove paper 41.8 x 30.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1927 Glashäuser Viertel watercolour on paper mounted on card 42.7 x 52.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1927 Harmony of Northern Flora oil on plasterboard 51.6 x 77.2 cm Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland |
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| 1927 Heavenly and Earthly Time pen and black ink and watercolour on paper 41.1 x 49.8 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1927 Hero Mother watercolour, ink, and graphite on paper mounted on board 48.6 x 31.3 cm San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA |
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| 1927 Historical Site watercolour and ink on paper on board 35.5 x 48.7 cm Tate, London |
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| 1927 Hunting Ground near Sp. pencil, watercolour, gouache and charcoal on paper mounted on card 27.6 x 47.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1927 Journey in Corsica pen and black ink and watercolour, sprayed and brushed, on paper, mounted on board 33.3 x 45.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1927 Party from G. watercolour and oil on paper 32.2 x 24.2 cm Museum Berggruen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| 1927 Pastorale ( Rhythms ) tempera on canvas mounted on wood 69.3 x 52.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1927 Plant Seeds watercolour and India ink on laid paper mounted on cardboard 30.5 x 46.7 cm © Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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| 1927 Portrait of an Equilibrist oil and collage on cardboard over wood with painted plaster border 63.2 x 40 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1927 Prestidigitator ( Magician ) oil and watercolour on fabric on cardboard 49.7 x 41.8 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1927 Seaside Resort in the South of France graphite, crayon and watercolour on paper on board 32.7 x 48.8 cm Tate, London |
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| 1927 Statuettes of Disabled War Heroes ink on paper mounted on cardboard 50.2 x 32.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1927 Still Life oil on gypsum construction 47.9 x 64.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1927 Under Water ink on paper mounted on cardboard 50.2 x 63.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1927 Variations ( Progressive Motif ) oil and watercolour on canvas 40.6 x 40 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1927 Young Garden - Rhythms oil and incision marks on canvas 65 x 51.7 cm |
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| 1928 A Leaf from a City Book oil paint on paper on cardboard on second box nailed on stretcher; original frame borders 42.5 x 31.5 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1928 Botanical Laboratory gouache, watercolour and ink on paper mounted on cardboard 39.3 x 26.9 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1928 Cat and Bird oil and ink on gessoed canvas, mounted on wood 38.1 x 53.2 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1928 Children before a City oil on paper mounted on card 27.6 x 22 cm Private Collection |
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| 1928 Fast getroffen ( Nearly Hit ) oil on board 50.8 x 39.4 cm |
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| 1928 Foundations of K watercolour on paper mounted on card 25.4 x 35.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1928 Frau im Sontagsstat ( Woman in Sunday Act ) oil on canvas 22.9 x 18.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1928 Gifts for "J." oil, ink, and gesso on canvas mounted on wood 40 x 55.9 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York * Shown the correct way up |
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| 1928 Height! etching 23 x 23 cm ( sheet ) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1928 Juggler in April etching 19.1 x 19.6 cm ( plate ) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1928 Marjamshausen watercolour on paper 41.7 x 31.3 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
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| 1928 Modest Home oil over gessoed gauze over plaster 38.7 x 35.5 cm |
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| 1928 Old Town ( Overview ) watercolour on white primer on paper, mounted on cardboard 29.5 x 22.4 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1928 Small Houses in the Garden City watercolour on paper, mounted on board 29.2 x 45.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1928 Still Life with Animal Statuette oil on canvas mounted on card 31.5 x 32 cm Private Collection |
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| 1928c Stakim oil on plaster 20.3 x 32.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1929 Ancient Warrior watercolour and charcoal on paper mounted on card 47.1 x 30.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1929 Arrival of the Air Dragon oil on board 49 x 35 cm Private Collection |
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| 1929 Demonic Puppets gouache and pen on linen mounted on card 37 x 25 cm Private Collection |
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| 1929 Fig Tree watercolour on paper 28 x 20.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1929 Fire in the Evening oil on cardboard 33.8 x 33.3 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1929 Fleeing Ghost oil on canvas 89.5 x 63.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1929 Ghost Rider Late in the Evening watercolour and gouache 46.5 x 31 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1929 Highways and Byways oil on canvas 82.8 x 66.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1929 Hollow Outlook watercolour on paper mounted on card 27 x 34 cm Private Collection |
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| 1929 In the Current Six Thresholds oil and tempera on canvas 43.5 x 43.5 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1929 Into the Cave pen and brown ink, watercolour, and pastel on paper with laid texture mounted on thin cardboard 30.5 x 45.7 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1929 Land of Lemons watercolour and gouache on paper mounted on cardboard 22.8 x 30.4 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1929 Landscape with Poplars watercolour on white ground on paper on cardboard 27 x 21.5 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1929 Marchen painting on gessoed canvas 50 x 43 cm Private Collection |
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| 1929 Measured Fields watercolour on Ingres paper 30 x 46 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf |