Raised bands of pale paste form a moth-like mask

Thick raised bands of pale paste paint, shaded brown along their edges, form a tall mask-like figure in relief. Two looped spirals at the centre read as eyes, a pair of curling loops rises from the top like antennae, and further bands fold down and outward like wings or drapery. The field around the figure is ribbed with parallel horizontal and vertical bands in cream and brown, and the name Klee is written in the upper left corner.

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.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.