Few artists of this century have exercised so wide an influence as Paul
Klee (1879-1940). He was one the most inventive and prolific of the
modern masters, working in a dozen different styles, each of which he
made uniquely his own, so that a work from his brush is unmistakable in
any style/ The forty-eight full-page colour plates in this book
illustrate the unparalleled way in which he combined unrivalled
imaginative gifts with supreme technical and formal proficiency, from
the playfulness of such early pictures as Red and White Domes to the
more threatening, bitter satire of the later work.
Accompanying the plates are extensive notes and an authoritative
introduction, which discusses Klee's life and the development of this
thought and achievement. Douglas Hall's essay on the artist has been
revised and expanded for this edition, to make it an invaluable
introduction to an extraordinary painter.