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Thistle picture
(Distel-bild)
1924
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1953
- Gallery location
- Not on display
About this work
Paul Klee was one of the longest-serving masters at the Bauhaus, teaching at the school in Weimar from 1921 to 1925 and then in Dessau from 1925 to 1931. During his tenure, Klee delivered lectures on composition as part of the compulsory preliminary course, and facilitated workshops on bookbinding and stained glass. This watercolour shows Klee’s ability to create harmonious compositions through unusual combinations of forms and colours. Both whimsical and dreamlike, the work presents a mysterious world of ambiguous floating forms that are delineated through delicate washes of purple, brown, crimson and orange over a subtly modulated blue-grey background.
Artwork Details
inscribed in pen and ink on card beneath grey strip l.c.: 1924 73 Distel-bild (underlined)
inscribed in pencil beneath grey strip l.l: S.Cl.
Purchased, 1953
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