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 - 12 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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| 1937 Fragments oil on burlap 55.2 x 71.8 cm San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA |
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| 1937 God of War gouache and tempera 35.2 x 29 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1937 Leaf oil on canvas 26 x 32.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1937 Legend of the Nile pastel on cotton cloth mounted on burlap 69 x 61 cm Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland |
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| 1937 Letter Ghost pigmented paste on newspaper 33 x 48.6 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1937 Peach Harvest watercolour and charcoal on chalk- and glue-primed paper, mounted with linen strips on paper 55.2 x 43.5 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1937 Printed Sheet with Picture oil on canvas 60 x 56.5 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1937 Revolution of the Viaduct oil on cotton 60 x 50 cm Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany |
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| 1937 Seeking and Finding colour paste on paper on cardboard 34.9 x 49.8 cm |
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| 1937 Sick Girl gouache on paper 32.5 x 21 cm Private Collection |
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| 1937 Signs in Yellow pastel on cotton on coloured paste on burlap on stretcher 83.5 x 50.3 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1937 Snail oil over charcoal on paper 17.7 x 28.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1937 The Way to the Citadel oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 67 x 56.8 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1937 Trio from an Operetta watercolour and charcoal on paper 20.5 x 30.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1937 Winter Sleep watercolour and charcoal on paper 31.1 x 48.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1937 Women Harvesting pastel on canvas, on burlap 50 x 54 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1937c Reclining oil on burlap 34.3 x 61 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1938 A Gate tempera on Ingres paper on cardboard 60.5 x 44.4 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1938 A Woman for Gods coloured paste and watercolour on wrapping paper mounted on cardboard 44.3 x 60.5 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1938 Archangel oil and distemper on cotton on jute on a stretcher 100 x 65 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1938 Blades coloured paste on paper on cardboard 50 x 35 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1938 Child Playing pastel on linen on paper 36.9 x 23.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 Children's Frieze pastel on cotton laid down on paper mounted on card 9.5 x 33.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 Comedians' Handbill gouache on newsprint mounted on cardboard 54.6 x 36.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1938 Dances under the influence of Fear watercolour on paper on card 48 x 31 cm |
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| 1938 Duke Leader ( Ladder ) Not Alone oil and tempera on paper 34.3 x 48.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1938 Exercising gouache and black chalk on paper mounted on card 49.8 x 34.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 Forest Witch oil on paper on burlap 99 x 74 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1938 Fragmenta Veneris watercolour and tempera and plaster on jute 30 x 21 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 Fruits from Overseas oil on paper mounted on card 28.8 x 39.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 Girl, Two Brandies oil, paste and watercolour 52 x 35 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 Heroic Roses oil on stained canvas 68 x 52 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany |
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| 1938 Heroic Strokes of the Bow pigmented paste on newspaper on dyed cloth on board in artist's frame 73 x 53 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1938 Hot Pursuit coloured paste and oil on paper on jute 48.3 x 64.8 cm Harvard Art Museums / Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA |
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| 1938 Initial A pastel on burlap laid down on paper 12.7 x 23.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 Insula Dulcamara oil and colour glue paint on paper on hessian canvas 88 x 176 cm |
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| 1938 Ju Blüte coloured gesso on burlap on gessoed masonite 47 x 74 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 Little Hope plaster and watercolour on burlap mounted on cardboard 46 x 51.8 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1938 Park near Lu. ( Lucerne ) 100 x 70 cm Tate, London) |
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| 1938 Rich Harbour ( Picture of a Journey ) oil and paste on newspaper on jute 75.4 x 165 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1938 Schwimm Fähiges coloured paste on paper laid down on stiff cream paper 29 x 34 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 Slightly Dry Poem oil and pastel on burlap, mounted on card 58.5 x 45 cm Harvard Art Museums / Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA |
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| 1938 The Broken Key oil on burlap 50 x 66 cm Sprengel Museum Hannover |
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| 1938 The Garden in Hot Weather oil and casein on paper 25.4 x 34.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 The Sales Woman in the Open Study for "Three Exotic Youths" 1938 ( suitable image not found) and "Exotics 1939 ( see below ) brush and black ink on off-white wove paper, tipped onto ivory card 43.1 x 27 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1939 Exotics oil on burlap 71.1 x 55.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1938 The Vase oil on burlap on burlap 88 x 54.5 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1938 Wave gouache on paper laid down on paper 17.8 x 27 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 Winter colour lithograph 35.5 x 26.5 cm |
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| 1938 Winter Masks gouache on paper mounted on card 20.5 x 23.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 Yellow-Green oil and pastel on linen mounted on card 46 x 31 cm Private Collection |
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| 1938 Young Moe coloured paste on newspaper on burlap 53 x 70.1 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1939 A Children's Game coloured paste and watercolour on cardboard Staatliche Museen ze Berlin, National Galerie Sammlung Berggruen |
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| 1939 And Not Ashamed gouache and watercolour on paper mounted on board 22.7 x 29.5 cm San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA |
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| 1939 Angel Applicant gouache, ink, and graphite on paper mounted on cardboard 65.4 x 44.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |