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Paul KleeEsel - Lithograph by Paul Klee - 19251925
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About the Item
Lithograph on imitation Japan paper, from the book Monatshefte für Bücherfreunde und Graphiksammler, edited by Hans Loubier and Willy Kurth, 1st year 1925. Leipzig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1925, issue 5.
Hand signed in pencil, and inscribed in pencil "Esel".
Very good condition.
Ref. Kornfeld 97/c.
Prov. Galerie Kornfeld.
A striking example of Paul Klee’s inventive graphic vocabulary, Esel depicts a stylized donkey figure constructed from rhythmic, cross-hatched lines that verge on abstraction. Executed in 1925, the work demonstrates Klee’s ability to fuse the whimsical with the profound, imbuing his subject with a sense of both humor and psychological depth.
The lithograph reveals Klee’s fascination with primitivism, children’s art, and the unconscious, all central influences in his practice during his tenure at the Bauhaus. The donkey, with its angular form and expressive features, stands as both a totemic figure and a playful caricature, reflecting Klee’s unique balance of irony and sensitivity.
- Creator:Paul Klee (1879-1940, German)
- Creation Year:1925
- Dimensions:Height: 11.62 in (29.5 cm)Width: 8.67 in (22 cm)Depth: 0.08 in (2 mm)
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- Framing:Framing Options Available
- Condition:Insurance may be requested by customers as additional service, contact us for more information.
- Gallery Location:Roma, IT
- Reference Number:Seller: T-1578321stDibs: LU650317078662
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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(Biography provided by Cerbera Gallery)
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