Artworks · Paul Klee

Der Paukenspieler (The Drummer Boy)

1972 · Cotton, jute and wool, plain weave with discontinuous supplementary pile warps forming cut solid pile

151.4 × 74.7 cm (59 5/8 × 29 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Poster for Klee Exhibition at Berggruen & Cie

1955 · Lithograph

25 3/8 x 18 11/16" (64.4 x 47.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Day Music (Musique diurne) from Art d'Aujourd'hui, Maîtres de l'Art Abstrait (Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art), Album I

1953 · One from a portfolio of sixteen screenprint reproductions

composition (irreg.): 13 3/4 × 20 5/8" (35 × 52.4 cm); sheet: 19 5/16 × 25 3/16" (49 × 63.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Dancing Girl

1940 · Oil on cloth

53.3 × 51.2 cm (21 × 20 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lady Apart (Dame abseits)

1940 · Pigmented paste on paper on board

25 1/2 x 19 3/4" (64.8 x 50.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Leaf from the Memoirs of an Old Woman

1939 · Watercolor and pen and brown ink, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, tipped on ivory wove paper

Max: 29.4 × 20.9 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Exotics

1939 · Oil on burlap

71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Intoxication (Im Rausch)

1939 · Pigmented paste on tracing paper on board

16 1/8 x 21 3/4" (41 x 55.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Men Will Come

1938 · Brush and black wash, on off-white watercolor paper, tipped on ivory wove paper

25.5 × 42.4 cm (10 1/16 × 16 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Harmonized Region

1938 · Oil on burlap on cardboard

38.7 × 47 cm (15 1/4 × 18 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Sales Woman in the Open (Study for 'Exotic')

1938 · Brush and black ink on off-white wove paper, tipped onto ivory card

43.1 × 27 cm (17 × 10 11/16 in.); Mount sight: 55.1 × 34.7 cm (21 3/4 × 13 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Duke Leader (Ladder) Not Alone

1938 · Oil and tempera on paper

34.3 × 48.6 cm (13 9/16 × 19 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Heroic Strokes of the Bow (Heroische Bogenstriche)

1938 · Pigmented paste on newspaper on dyed cloth on board in artist's frame

28 3/4 x 20 7/8" (73 x 53 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Letter Ghost (Geist eines Briefes)

1937 · Pigmented paste on newspaper

13 x 19 1/8" (33 x 48.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

God of War

1937 · Gouache and tempera

Sheet: 35.2 x 29 cm (13 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); Secondary Support: 64.6 x 49.3 cm (25 7/16 x 19 7/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Walpurgis Night

1935 · Gouache on fabric on plywood

support: 508 x 470 mm frame: 725 x 682 x 72 mm

Tate

In the Magic Mirror

1934 · Oil on canvas, on board

66 × 50 cm (26 × 19 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Starving Spirits

1934 · Pastel and oil on linen

Max: 51 × 43.7 cm (20 1/8 × 17 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Errand Boy (Ausläufer)

1934 · Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper

19 1/8 x 12 3/8" (48.6 x 31.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Painter's Studio

1933 · Watercolor, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, hinged on cream wove card

32.2 × 43 cm (12 11/16 × 16 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Animals in Monumental Pose

1933 · Black crayon on cream wove tracing paper, hinged to cream wove card

44.4 × 26.6 cm (17 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Old Dwarf (Alte Zwergin)

1933 · Pigmented paste on paper on board

18 1/4 x 13 3/4" (46.3 x 34.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Women Harvesting

1932 · Pastel on canvas, on burlap

50 × 54 cm (20 × 21 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Great Harbor

1932 · Watercolor on off-white laid paper

45.3 × 60.4 cm (17 7/8 × 23 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Artistic Comedy

1932 · Watercolor over traces of graphite on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream card

Max: 64.9 × 47.7 cm (25 9/16 × 18 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Fun on the Inland Lake

1932 · Brush and black ink and pastel, on ivory wove paper prepared with tan gouache, tipped on cream card.

30.3 × 46.5 cm (11 15/16 × 18 5/16 in.); Mount: 49 × 64.2 cm (19 5/16 × 25 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

What Is He Running For?

1932 · Etching from a zinc plate on cream laid paper

Plate: 23.7 × 30 cm (9 3/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Sheet: 31.5 × 40 cm (12 7/16 × 15 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masked Love

1932 · Pen and brush and gray ink, on off-white Japanese paper, tipped on cream wove card

Max: 50.2 × 35.7 cm (19 13/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mask of Fear

1932 · Oil on burlap

39 5/8 x 22 1/2" (100.4 x 57.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Equals Infinity

1932 · Oil on canvas mounted on wood

20 1/4 x 26 7/8" (51.4 x 68.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Why Does He Run? (Was läuft er?)

1932 · Etching

plate: 9 3/8 x 11 13/16" (23.8 x 30 cm); sheet: 11 11/16 x 15 1/16" (29.7 x 38.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Was lauft er?

1932 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

Blooming Plant

1931 · Watercolor, with touches of gouache, over charcoal, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan wood-pulp laminate board

59.7 × 43.2 cm (23 9/16 × 17 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Mrs. Bl.

1931 · Pen and black and brown ink and graphite with smudging on off-white wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card.

Primary support: 33.6 × 21 cm (13 1/4 × 8 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 63.7 × 46.5 cm (25 1/8 × 18 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Prickle, The Clown

1931 · Etching on cream wove paper

Plate: 29.4 × 24 cm (11 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet: 48.3 × 40.1 cm (19 1/16 × 15 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Castle Garden

1931 · Oil on canvas

26 1/2 x 21 5/8" (67.2 x 54.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Approximate Man (L'Homme approximatif) from the deluxe edition of the book L'Homme approximatif by Tristan Tzara

1931 · Etching and drypoint

plate: 7 x 5 1/2" (17.8 x 13.9 cm); sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 7/8" (24.5 x 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Prickle the Clown (Stachel der Clown)

1931 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 11 9/16 x 9 7/16" (29.3 x 24 cm); sheet: 19 3/4 x 15 3/4" (50.2 x 40 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Burdened Children

1930 · Graphite, crayon and ink on paper on board

support: 650 x 458 mm

Tate

The Castle Mountain of S.

1930 · Gouache on paper on board

support: 368 x 467 mm

Tate

Sunset

1930 · Oil on canvas

46.1 × 70.5 cm (18 1/8 × 27 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Strange Glance

1930 · Oil on canvas

65.4 × 38.1 cm (25 3/4 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman in Evolution

1930 · Watercolor and dilute oil paint on cream wove paper

32.1 × 48.8 cm (12 11/16 × 19 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1930 · Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Plate: 17.8 × 13.8 cm (7 1/16 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 28 × 22.2 cm (11 1/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

In the Grass

1930 · Oil on canvas

16 5/8 x 20 3/4" (42.1 x 52.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

"Or The Mocked Mocker"

1930 · Oil on canvas

17 x 20 5/8" (43.2 x 52.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Never Ending (Nicht endend) from the deluxe edition of the book Paul Klee by Will Grohmann

1930 · Etching

plate: 7 x 5 3/8" (17.8 x 13.7 cm); sheet: 11 x 8 3/4" (27.9 x 22.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Fleeing Ghost

1929 · Oil on canvas

89.5 × 63.5 cm (35 1/4 × 25 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago