A dark face ringed by pale curls glows under dappled blossom

A frontal face painted in near-black is framed by loose pink curls and wide almond eyes with yellow dot pupils, small red dabs marking the cheeks and a flat horizontal mouth. The figure wears a blue-and-white striped garment. Behind it, a mass of cream and pale-yellow dabs scatters across a rust-orange ground like blossoms caught in dappled light, with a strip of deep blue sky along the top edge. Klee signs "Klee" at upper left; painted 1930.

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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