In the Kairouan Style, Transposed in a Moderate Way

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In the Kairouan Style, Transposed in a Moderate Way

Switzerland, 1914
Drawings; watercolors
Watercolor and pencil on paper on bristol board
5 11/16 x 8 7/16 in. (14.5 x 21.5 cm)
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof (M.2005.70.51)
Modern Art
Not currently on public view

Provenance

The artist (1879-1940)....
The artist (1879-1940). Otto Ralfs, Braunschweig, 1931–1932; Lily Klee, Bern, 1940–1946; Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern, 1946–1949; [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, 1948–1949]; [Israel Ber Neumann, Berlin and New York, from 1949]; Peter G. Neumann, Palo Alto, until 1986; Irma Rudin, United States; William Pall, New York; [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne]; sold in 1993 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
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Just before the outbreak of World War I, Paul Klee traveled to Tunisia. The light of the North African country and its effect on the perception of color had a dramatic impact on his art....
Just before the outbreak of World War I, Paul Klee traveled to Tunisia. The light of the North African country and its effect on the perception of color had a dramatic impact on his art. Klee would paint his first fully abstract works after this trip, including the two watercolors seen here, employing a vocabulary of colorful geometric forms. This geometric framework would remain important to him, even as he returned to figuration in his art. Klee joined the Bauhaus faculty in 1921 and taught at the school until 1931, working as the form master for the bookbinding, stained glass, and mural painting workshops.

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Bibliography

  • Paul Klee Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne.  "Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné."  London: Thames and Hudson, 1998.
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.