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Paul KleeDer Hafen von Plit1927
1927
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"Der Hafen von Plit" is a drawing by Paul Klee. The drawing is signed lower left, "Klee". The framed piece measures 25 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.
Paul Klee was one of the most important figures in the development of European abstract art in the first quarter of the 20th century. His imagery, sometimes totally abstract and sometimes full of half-recognizable forms and figures, communicates with the subconscious mind. It often seems to have an almost child-like simplicity yet it is deeply complex in its associations and allusions. Klee’s inspiration reflects the ideas of Surrealism, Dada, and Freudian psychology, but at the same time is totally unique in its character and style.
Provenance:
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Joseph Solman
Private Collection, California
Exhibition:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Klee, March 13-April 2, 1930, no. 29
Literature:
Will Grohmann, Paul Klee: Handzeichnungen II 1921-1930, #40
Paul Klee
Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism.
Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre) — which were published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks — are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting was for the Renaissance.
Klee and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture in Germany. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
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