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 - 13 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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| 1939 Blue-Bird-Pumpkin gouache on paper mounted on cardboard 34.3 x 49.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1939 Conch - Still Life II gouache on paper, mounted on board inscribed by the artist 27.9 x 21.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1939 Conquest of the Mountain oil on cotton 95 x 70 cm The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan |
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| 1939 Creature of the Moorland D gouache and coloured crayon on paper mounted on card 21 x 32.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 Drawn Girl tempera and watercolour over primer 33.5 x 20.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 Embrace paste colour, watercolour and oil on paper 24.2 x 31.1 cm Collection Dr. Bernhard Sprengel, Hanover |
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| 1939 Exuberance oil and colour glue paint on paper on hessian canvas 101 x 130 cm |
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| 1939 Fear Explosion III watercolour on prepared paper on card 63.5 x 48.1 cm |
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| 1939 Poison Mixer from the Old Kingdom gouache and watercolour on paper mounted on card 21.6 x 29.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 Girl in Mourning gouache, pastel, and charcoal on paper mounted on cardboard 66.4 x 50.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1939 In Position watercolour on paper mounted on card 31.3 x 22 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 Intoxication oil and watercolour on jute 65 x 80 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1939 Intoxication pigmented paste on tracing paper on board 41 x 55.2 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1939 La Belle Jardinière oil and tempera on hessian canvas 95 x 71 cm |
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| 1939 Leaf from the Memoirs of an Old Woman watercolour and pen and brown ink, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, tipped on ivory wove paper 29.4 x 20.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1939 Listening Angel oil on board 27 x 22 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 Mud Bath black chalk on damask ( linen damask with embroidered K napkin ), mounted on cardboard 30 x 30 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1939 Oh! These Rumours! tempera and oil on burlap 75.6 x 55 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1939 Park of Idols watercolour on blackened paper 35.6 x 20.9 cm Collection Felix Klee, Bern |
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| 1939 Pretender pencil and watercolour on paper laid down on paper 29.5 x 21 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 Rocks at Night watercolour and ink on chalk-and glue-primed letter paper, mounted on paper 20.9 x 29.5 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1939 Song of Love in the New Moon ( Chant d’amour à la Nouvelle Lune ) watercolour on hessian canvas 100 70 cm |
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| Voice from the ether: 'And you will eat your fill' tempera and oil on brown paper 50 x 38 cm Victoria and Albert MUseum, London |
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| 1939 The Clown and His Flower gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper mounted on card 21 x 29.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 The Man of Confusion oil on canvas 66.7 x 50.5 cm St. Louis Art Museum, MO |
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| 1939 The White Form gouache on black paper 32 x 49 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 This Flower Wishes to Fade watercolour on paper |
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| 1939 Unknown Initial oil, watercolour, wax crayon and pencil on paper mounted on card 29.5 x 20.7 cm Private Collection |
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| Overwinter oil and gouache 45.2 x 90.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 Wild Animal in a Spell gouache and watercolour on paper laid down on stiff cream paper 25.4 x 27 cm Private Collection |
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| 1940 Boy with Toys coloured paste on paper, mounted on paper 29.2 x 20.6 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1940 Captive oil on burlap 47.9 x 44.1 cm Collection Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Zimmerman, New York |
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| 1940 Dancing Girl oil on cloth 53.3 x 51.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1940 Death and Fire oil and distemper on jute 43 x 43 cm Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland |
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| 1940 Heat coloured paste on paper mounted on card 48 x 62.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1940 High Watcher coloured paste on brown wrapping paper laid down on stiff cream paper 44 x 21 cm Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern |
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| 1940 Lady Apart pigmented paste on tracing paper on board 64.8 x 50.2 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1940 Locksmith paste colour on paper, mounted on cardboard 48 x 31 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1940 Matros coloured paste on paper 48.3 x 30.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1940 Mud-Woodlouse-Fish coloured paste and grease crayon on newspaper on cardboard 34 x 53.5 cm |
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| 1940 Mumon, Drunk, Collapses into an Armchair coloured paste on paper on cardboard 29.5 x 21 cm |
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| 1940 Nomad Mother black crayon and opaque watercolour on paper 29.4 x 20.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1940 Palace gouache and watercolour on paper 31.5 x 42.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1940 The Hour Before One Night gouache on paper mounted on cardboard 44.5 x 59.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1940 Untitled chalk, gesso and wax crayon on draft paper 28.8 x 20.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1940 Untitled oil on canvas 100 x 80.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1940c Untitled watercolour and paste on paper 20 x 29.2 cm |
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| 1940c Untitled, Captive - Figure of this World - Next World oil and coloured paste on primed burlap on burlap 55.2 x 50.1 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| 1947 Not Ending etching printed in black ink on heavy cream wove paper 17.8 x 13.7 cm ( plate ) Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1949 A Kind of Skyscraper oilstick on gessoed burlap mounted on board 44.5 x 22.2 cm Private Collection |