Looping brown bands trace a ring and curling forms over blue

Broad flat strokes of chocolate brown sweep across a cornflower-blue ground, forming vertical bands on the left, a loose ring with a pale center right of center, and looser curved shapes below. The brushwork is visible throughout, thick and matte, with no fine detail beyond the two colors. Painted in 1938, the work is titled for an imagined theater of flowers, though no flowers are shown.

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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