A nocturnal purple landscape scored with fine white tree lines

A nocturnal landscape built from deep passages of purple, indigo and magenta, over which fine white, pale-blue and yellow lines are scratched to describe rows of bare trees, a latticed bridge and cross-hatched, terraced fields. A cluster of small red-roofed houses sits at upper left; pale clouds drift along the top edge, and wavy incised lines along the lower band suggest a river or water channel.

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.