Paul klee liked to work on several paintings at once. He would spend hours wandering between the easels in his studio, adding paint here, dabbing water-colour there, coaxing new worlds from flat canvasses. He moved easily, but mostly he smoked and waited, confident that his creations would ripen with a bit of time. By the time he died in 1940 aged 60, Klee had created nearly 10,000 artworks, mostly paintings, drawings and some puppets. A restless innovator, he spent a lifetime experimenting with new techniques, tools and materials. His oeuvre defies classification, spanning Symbolism, German Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism. The paintings themselves are wildly varied, blending oils with watercolours, burlap with newspaper. Dreamily, they dance in and out of abstraction.
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