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Thistle picture
(Distel-bild)
1924
- Medium
- gouache and watercolour on linen laid down on thin card, with traces of ruled ink and pencil
- Measurements
- 21.0 × 40.6 cm (image) (including grey strips top and bottom) 38.1 × 54.3 cm (card)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Paul-Klee-Stiftung, No. 3441
- Inscription
- inscribed in pen and ink on linen l.l.: Klee
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. - Accession Number
- 2999-4
- Department
- International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1953
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Paul Klee was one of the longest-serving masters at the Bauhaus. From 1921 to 1931 he worked as master of the bookbinding workshop and taught a course on composition as part of the compulsory preliminary course. 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.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art
- Subjects (specific)
- Bauhaus crosses (visual works) forms of expression (artistic concept) geometric abstraction thistle (plant)
- Movements
- Expressionism Surrealism
