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Paul Klee — Senecio Print

Klee builds a face from warm blocks of colour, a pale circular outline and an eccentric arrangement of eyes. The simple structure rewards close looking as the expression shifts between mask, portrait and playful invention. This edition preserves the complete image, including the textured surface and surrounding painted ground.

A fine-art giclée reproduction on 200 gsm uncoated paper. The complete composition is presented with a white paper border. Choose from the available sizes and unframed or framed finishes.

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Fine-art print on 200 gsm enhanced matte paper. Measurements are the paper dimensions, including the white border. Framing adds to the overall dimensions. The artwork keeps its approved composition within those margins. White, natural and dark wood frames are ready to hang with plexiglass.

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About the artwork

Klee builds a face from warm blocks of colour, a pale circular outline and an eccentric arrangement of eyes. The simple structure rewards close looking as the expression shifts between mask, portrait and playful invention. This edition preserves the complete image, including the textured surface and surrounding painted ground.

A fine-art giclée reproduction on 200 gsm uncoated paper. The complete composition is presented with a white paper border. Choose from the available sizes and unframed or framed finishes.

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Artist
Paul Klee
Artwork
Paul Klee — Senecio Print
Date of work
1922
Museum collection
Kunstmuseum Basel

About Paul Klee

German, born in Switzerland · 1879–1940

Paul Klee was born near Bern to a German music teacher and a Swiss mother. He grew up in a musical household before choosing to train as an artist in Munich. Drawing remained fundamental to his practice. His pictures bring a remarkably varied vocabulary of figures, symbols, arrows and colour arrangements into works that can be playful and deeply reflective at once.

In Munich, Klee became involved with the Blue Rider circle around Kandinsky and Franz Marc. A journey to North Africa in 1914 helped transform his understanding of colour. It could become a pictorial element in its own right, rather than simply describing an object. His art moved freely between suggestion and abstraction, allowing imagined forms to arise from lines and patches of pigment.

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