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Paul Klee: The Thinking Eye (The Notebooks of Paul Klee)
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About the Item
First American edition, first printing, of “the first full collection of Paul Klee’s ideas on form and artistic creation.” Published in 1961 by George Wittenborn as the fifteenth installment of the Robert Motherwell-edited Wittenborn series The Documents of Modern Art. This massive volume, which includes essays, lectures, diagrams, and examples of Klee’s own artwork and student work, was edited by Jurg Spiller and translated from the German by Ralph Mannheim with assistance from Charlotte Weidler and Joyce Wittenborn. Preface by Giulio Carlo Argan. Square 4to (8.75” x 8.75”), hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 542 pages including two fold-out pages, illustrated throughout in b/w and color. Several color illustrations tipped-in. Some marginal notations in pencil by previous owner, an art gallerist and artist.
- Creator:Paul Klee (Author)
- Dimensions:Height: 8.75 in (22.23 cm)Width: 8.75 in (22.23 cm)Depth: 1.75 in (4.45 cm)
- Style:Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1961
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Spine somewhat shaken. Slight bowing to textblock. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Moderate rubbing and soiling to dj, with closed and open tears to edges and oss to bottom third of spine.
- Seller Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU828546150602
Paul Klee
Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism.
Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre) — which were published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks — are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting was for the Renaissance.
Klee and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture in Germany. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
Find original Paul Klee prints and other art on 1stDibs.
(Biography provided by Cerbera Gallery)
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