Artist: Paul Klee
Date: 1937
Size: 19 x 28 cm
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Technique: Oil On Board
Here, Klee inventively transforms the industrial city of Duisburg into an upbeat pictogram. A seascape, with boats, a shoreline, and rippling waves, is abbreviated into outlines set against muted tones of mauve, green, peach, rose, and buff. Klee uses open geometric forms for the houses and boats in the upper half of the picture, where one color plane blends into another. Meanwhile, the Rhine River appears as squiggly lines. This work may evoke the happy years Klee spent in the nearby city of Düsseldorf from 1931 to 1933.
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