Variations (Progressive Motif), 1927, Oil and watercolor on canvas, 16 x 15 3/4 in. (40.6 x 40 cm), Paintings, Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), Münchenbuchsee 1879–1940 Muralto-Locarno), Klee gridded this small canvas in such a way that the design looks like slightly irregular graph paper or a pattern of parquetry boards. Due to a variation in the same motif—horizontally striped, light blue squares on the outside versus ivory-shaded ones with diagonal and crisscross lines toward the center—there emerges a subtly patterned image that anticipates Minimalist painting by about forty years
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Variations, Progressive Motif, 1927, Oil, watercolor, canvas, 16 x 15 3/4, 40.6 40 cm, Paintings, Paul Klee, German, born Switzerland, Münchenbuchsee, 1879–1940, Muralto-Locarno, Klee gridded, small canvas, way, design looks, slightly irregular, graph, paper, pattern, parquetry boards, Due, variation, motif—horizontally striped, light blue, squares, outside versus, ivory-shaded, ones, diagonal, crisscross lines, center— emerges, subtly patterned, image, anticipates Minimalist, painting, forty years
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