1958 After Paul Klee "Woman in Native Costume", First English Edition Lithograph

Description

A striking excellent vintage First Edition offset lithograph print after painting "Woman in Native Costume" (1940) by Swiss-German artist Paul … more A striking excellent vintage First Edition offset lithograph print after painting "Woman in Native Costume" (1940) by Swiss-German artist Paul Klee. Comes from a rare First Limited English Edition art folio published in London, in 1958. Signed in the print. Printed on one side. Hand tipped-in on a board of heavy paper. Information regarding the original artwork will be found by lifting the plate. Copy on the back of the board is related to another piece in the folio. Very detailed. Rich deep colors. Excellent condition - never framed.

Overall 10.45"W x 14.10"H
Image 6.5"W x 10.10"H

Shortly before his death, Klee produced pictures and figures like this Woman in Native Costume which, composed of a few harsh strokes enclosing coloured shapes, have effect of leaded stained-glass windows. The figure of a "woman in native costume" emerged only at the end of a long process - when the triangle of white was associated with a nose, and led of the two black dots that marks the eyes. In other pictures, similar forms led to landscapes or non-representational forms.

In the course of a conversation Klee said one evening that when he made this drawing he was so excited that he had the feeling of beating a drum. We can not help recalling these words when we look at such pictures. The lines and the colours have something in them of drum beats, which are limited in mood but all the more emphatic for that. Actually, Klee painted a drummer and drum beats to commemorate a drummer whom he had heard and observed at the Dresden Opera House. less