A boy's costume rendered in a mosaic of tiny color squares

A standing figure is built from small rectangular strokes of color in a mosaic-like pattern across a gray ground. A rounded pale headdress frames a small dark face, above a wide collar and a costume patterned with orange and pink chevron bands. Pale wing-like panels extend to either side at the hips, blue trousers lead down to red shoes with bow ties, and a small signature is visible at the upper left.

Paul Klee (1879–1940) was one of the most inventive artists of the twentieth century. Swiss-born and trained in Munich, he joined Kandinsky and Marc in the Blaue Reiter circle, found colour on a journey to Tunisia in 1914, and taught at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1931, where his lectures on line, tone and colour became a theory of pictorial form. His small paintings and drawings move between geometry, script, humour and dream. After the Nazi regime dismissed him in 1933 he returned to Bern. His work is held by the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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