Little Hope
Regular price
$1,000.00
Specialty: Giclee on Watercolor Paper, Deckled and Floated on Mat
- Watercolor Paper
- Deckled and Floated on Mat
- 30"w x 32"h
Our Inspiration: Little Hope
Paul Klee (German, b. Switzerland, 1879–1940)
Plaster and watercolor on burlap mounted on cardboard, 18 1/8 x 20 3/8 in., 1938
The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984 1984.315.58
From 1931 to December 1933, Paul Klee taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. When the National Socialists declared his art “degenerate” in 1933, Klee returned to his native Bern. Personal hardship and the increasing gravity of the political situation in Europe are reflected in the somber tone of his late work. Lines turn into black bars, forms become broad and generalized, scale larger, and colors simpler.