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Boy in Fancy Dress
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WMET0080
Our Inspiration: Boy in Fancy Dress
Paul Klee (German, b. Switzerland, 1879–1940)
Watercolor and gouache on paper mounted on cardboard, 24 3/4 x 18 7/8 in., 1931
The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1988 1988.415
In October 1931, Paul Klee began teaching at the Düsseldorf Academy. He felt much at ease in that city, his well-being reflected in his adaptation of a pointillistic, loose mosaic style. But Klee's merry "Pointillism" was different from the method of Georges Seurat and his followers, who broke down the imagery of their paintings into tiny dots of pure color. Klee's works, rather, seem "built up" with row upon row of block-like units of color, chosen without regard for optical laws.
Our Inspiration: Boy in Fancy Dress
Paul Klee (German, b. Switzerland, 1879–1940)
Watercolor and gouache on paper mounted on cardboard, 24 3/4 x 18 7/8 in., 1931
The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1988 1988.415
In October 1931, Paul Klee began teaching at the Düsseldorf Academy. He felt much at ease in that city, his well-being reflected in his adaptation of a pointillistic, loose mosaic style. But Klee's merry "Pointillism" was different from the method of Georges Seurat and his followers, who broke down the imagery of their paintings into tiny dots of pure color. Klee's works, rather, seem "built up" with row upon row of block-like units of color, chosen without regard for optical laws.
