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 - 10 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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| 1931 Crosses and Columns watercolour on paper mounted on card 38 x 53 cm Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Staatgalerie moderner Kunst |
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| 1931 Danse Macabre pen and coloured inks 47.9 x 31.4 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1931 Departure of the Ghost watercolour, gouache, pen and ink on muslin laid down on canvas 243.8 x 179 cm Private Collection |
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| 1931 Diana oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm 31.5 x 23.6 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1931 Elated pen and pencil on paper, laid on cardboard 21 x 33 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1931 Episode B at Kairouan ink on paper mounted on cardboard 41.6 x 62.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1931 Group of Trees watercolour and charcoal on paper mounted on card 31.6 x 48 cm Private Collection |
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| 1931 Head, Psycho-Genetic watercolour and conté crayon on wove paper 33 x 21 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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| 1931 In Angel’s Care watercolour and coloured inks on paper, mounted on paper 42.1 x 49.1 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1931 Model 106, Polyphony in Colour watercolour on paper 45.5 x 63 cm Private Collection |
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| 1931 Old Tree watercolour, crayon and oil on paper mounted on card 40.5 x 51.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1931 POR oil on canvas mounted on card 35.9 x 47.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1931 Portrait O.T. gouache on black paper, mounted on painted cardboard 48.5 x 32.5 cm The Hillman Family Collection, New York |
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| 1931 Portrait of Mrs. Bl. pen and black and brown ink and graphite with smudging on off-white wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card 33.6 x 21 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1931 Prickle the Clown etching and aquatint 29.3 x 24 cm ( plate ) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1931 Rising Star oil on canvas 63 x 50 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1931 The Approximate Man etching and drypoint 17.8 x 13.9 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1931 Toy watercolour on paper mounted on card 44.1 x 63.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1932 Ad Parnassum oil paint, stamped lines, dots initially stamped with white and subsequently painted over on casein on canvas on stretcher 100 x 126 cm Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland |
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| 1932 Arab Song oil on burlap 91.1 x 64.4 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1932 Artistic Comedy watercolour over traces of graphite on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream card 64.9 x 47.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1932 Athlete's Head watercolour, gouache, and graphite on paper mounted on cardboard 62.9 x 47.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1932 Barbarian Sacrifice watercolour on paper, mounted to board 62.9 x 48 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1932 Barrack Settlement oil on jute, edged with gauze strips, nailed to plywood 77 x 53 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1932 Clarification oil on canvas 70.5 x 96.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1932 Equals Infinity oil on canvas mounted on wood 51.4 x 68.3 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1932 Flower Garden pastel on blue paper 46.5 x 30.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1932 Fun on the Inland Lake brush and black ink and pastel, on ivory wove paper prepared with tan gouache, tipped on cream card 30.3 x 46.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1932 Garden Gate K casein colour and watercolour on gauze on paper on cardboard 31 x 33 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1932 Great Harbour watercolour on off-white laid paper 45.3 x 60.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1932 Hat, Lady and Little Table gouache and oil on plaster-primed burlap, mounted on board 63.5 x 35.6 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1932 Helical Flowers II watercolour and pencil on paper mounted on card 37.4 x 48.3 cm Spregel Museum Hannover |
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| 1932 Influenz gouache on gessoed gauze on paper mounted on card 31.1 x 48.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1932 Mask of Fear oil on burlap 100.4 x 57.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1932 Masked Love pen and brush and grey ink, on off-white Japanese paper, tipped on cream wove card 50.2 x 35.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1932 Memory of a Bird watercolour and pencil on laid paper 31.4 x 47.9 cm © Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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| 1932 Morgangrau gouache on paper mounted on board 33.2 x 40.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1932 Mosaic-Like gouache on tan wove paper 59.4 x 39.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1932 Plant Analytical watercolour on plaster base on canvas on cardboard 53.5 x 19 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1932 Public Duel watercolour and India ink on tissue paper, mounted on paper 48.9 x 37.6 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1932 Reflections in the Dark watercolour on paper 30.6 x 24.2 cm Staatsgalerie, Suttgart, Graphische Sammlung |
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| 1932 Spring Painting watercolour on paper 26.3 x 47.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1932 Still Life with Broken Mirror watercolour on paper mounted on card 39.4 x 48.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1932 Town Castle Kr. oil and tempera on gesso on board 36 x 30.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1932 Two Accented Layers gouache and watercolour on Ingres paper mounted on card 24.8 x 30.4 cm The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas |
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| 1932 Two Ways watercolour on paper, mounted on paper 31.1 x 48.3 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1932 Why Does He Run? etching 23.8 x 30 cm ( plate ) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1932 Woman with Necklace oil and watercolour on canvas mounted on card 28 x 37.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1932-33 Fermata gouache on paper, mounted on board Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1933 A Little Room in Venice pastel on primer on paper, mounted on folded cardboard 21.8 x 30.5 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1933 Arrival of the Bridegroom oil on canvas 65.1 x 50.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1933 Double Bed brush and ink and ink wash on paper mounted on card 29.2 x 47.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1933 Edelkippe watercolour on paper 31.8 x 43 cm |
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| 1933 Fire at Full Moon oil on canvas 50 x 65 cm Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany |