Monuments at G.

Paul Klee

1929 · Gypsum and watercolor on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art

Shortly after his return to Dessau from Egypt in 1929, Klee created several works that recall the North African desert landscape. In this painting, thin horizontal stripes cover the entire surface from edge to edge and top to bottom, while vertical and diagonal lines, some forming acute or obtuse angles, interrupt the colorful flow of the horizontal bars. The two triangular shapes in the bottom half of the composition probably represent two of the three pyramids at Giza.

Artist

Paul Klee

Date

1929

Medium

Gypsum and watercolor on canvas

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984