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From the first sketch to the final varnish, Insula Dulcamara is made by hand. Based on Paul Klee's original. This abstract oil painting wall decor is crafted on artist-grade canvas for anyone who wants fine art oil painting with the character of an original.
1938
Oil on newsprint, mounted on burlap
31 1/2 x 69 in
Klee Foundation, Bern.
In 1938 Klee painted seven large panels in horizontal format. All of them are sketched with charcoal on newsprint, which Klee pasted over burlap or linen, thus obtaining a surface at once smooth and differentiated. The printed paper often shows through the color, and we read snatches of old asd and editorials. This did not trouble Klee in the slightest - he enjoyed such effects of mild surprise. More generally, he now makes greater use of unusual materials such as wrapping paper and burlap, paste colors, and plaster coatings. Similarly, from 1937 on, he employed bar strokes of varying thickness for his sign language.
Insula Dulcamara is cheerful work, with its sparse appurtenances on a dark ground. Klee rejected the suggestion that this picture be named "Calypso's Island" as too "direct," but his sketch fits that idea. The black contours are coastlines, the head is an idol, the other curved lineaments point to some tragic entanglement. On the horizon a steamer is sailing by; this does not affect the myth any more than the heavenly signs are contradictory - one of them stands for the rising, the other for the setting moon. The colors are springlike - a May green, a blossom pink, and a sky blue. This is spring on one of the Cylades, which Ulysses passed on his way to Ithaca. The Homeric Age has not yet ended, yet our own has long since begun, and the future with it. Transparency of time and Transparency of space, for where would the latter begin or stop, where would be the difference between the sea and the land? Klee has entered the multidimensional without being aware of it, though in his youth he thought of this state as his supreme goal.
Collectors often choose this fine art image when searching for fine art oil painting that feels substantial rather than decorative or disposable.
Materials matter for abstract wall decor. That is why this piece is built on artist-grade canvas with lightfast oil colors, applied by hand rather than output from a printer, and sealed for long-term display.
Style it over a fireplace, behind a reading chair, or along a staircase. Wherever it goes, this abstract oil painting wall decor adds the layered color that only a hand painted canvas provides.
| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 40 in | $75.48 |
| 24 X 48 in | $107.98 |
| 30 X 60 in | $164.48 |
| 36 X 72 in | $198.48 |
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