A red rounded figure stands beneath a bright yellow umbrella

A wide yellow arc like an open umbrella spans the top of the picture above a small oval pale grey head. Beneath it a large red rounded torso, outlined in black, stands on two thin black legs stepping apart, while a black stick runs from the umbrella down past the body like its handle. A small hooked black mark sits at the lower right, and the whole is set on a mottled slate-blue ground. Signed Klee at the lower left.

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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