Works On Paper Collection

Paul Klee

Festive—Earnest

Swiss, 1879-1940
Festive-Earnest
1930
watercolor, chalk, gouache, pen and ink on paper mounted on cardboard
1972.4

13 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches

In 1930, Klee joined the Dusseldorf Art Academy, where he remained for three years until Nazi pressures brought about his dismissal. That year he produced 149 color sheets, as his gouaches were called; this picture belongs to the category his son, Feliz Klee, calls his “Second Bauhaus” style, and shows a “Constructive influence.”