Terraced Garden
1920 · Oil on cardboard · Kunstmuseum Basel
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About this work
- Artist
- Paul Klee (1879–1940)
- Year
- 1920
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Original size
- 28 × 40 cm
- Collection
- Kunstmuseum Basel
- Movement
- Expressionism
A dusky field of deep teal, blue-green and violet is laid out in horizontal terraces, with small dark plants, dotted rows of foliage, pointed roofs and a curving bank emerging from the gloom. It reads as a garden or hillside seen at dusk, though its blocks of colour come close to abstraction. Klee painted it on cardboard in 1920, in Munich, in the months before he took up his post at the Bauhaus, when he was working on landscapes built from layered planes of colour. The terraced structure looks ahead to the stripe and layer pictures of the late 1920s, such as Highways and Byways. The low, dark palette is unusual for him and gives the small picture an evening stillness. The work is in the Kunstmuseum Basel.
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 dusky teal and violet garden laid out in terraces with small dark plants, for a bedroom, bathroom or reading nook at 16×24 in black. A deep green, navy or stone wall; it pairs with Swamp Legend.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1920)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- bedroom, bathroom, 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.
