A ghostly patchwork figure stares out with pale blue eyes

A pale figure stands frontally against a mottled olive-brown ground, drawn in scratchy dark ink over cream and yellow washes. The tilted, box-like head is filled with hatched lines and looks out through two pale blue eyes; a wide flat collar sits on the shoulders above a patchwork body whose edges step in and out at the shoulders and hips. Rounded mitten-like hands hang at the sides and the feet rest on a short base line. The whole surface carries a granular, speckled texture.

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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