Mosaic-like dabs of color build layered cliffs above the sea

Small rectangular dabs of colour build a mosaic-like surface: pink, red, mauve and cream squares fill the sky band at the top above a dark horizontal line marking the horizon. Below it rows of blue and grey dabs suggest the water, giving way to jagged vertical formations in deep red, ochre, gold and grey that fill the lower two-thirds of the picture like layered cliffs, each shape built cell by cell.

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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