Castle and Sun
1928 · Oil on canvas · Private collection
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About this work
- Artist
- Paul Klee (1879–1940)
- Year
- 1928
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 54 × 62 cm
- Collection
- Private collection
- Movement
- Bauhaus
A city of towers and battlements is built from small squares, rectangles and triangles in red, orange, green, blue, yellow and black, packed together like a mosaic on a deep red ground, and a round orange-red sun hangs at upper right. Rows of pointed roofs give the blocks a sense of buildings, though there is no perspective, only pattern. Klee painted it in 1928, while teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau, where his classes dealt with exactly this kind of construction from simple, repeated units. The picture draws on his long interest in architecture and on the coloured squares he had first explored after visiting Tunisia in 1914. The sun, the one curve in a field of straight edges, holds the whole composition together. The painting is in a private collection.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A mosaic city of red, orange, green and blue blocks under a round orange sun, for a child's room, playroom or kitchen at 16×24 in natural wood. A warm white, terracotta or deep red wall; it pairs with Senecio.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Bauhaus painting
- Era
- 20th century (1928)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- kitchen, kids room, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
