Artwork
Lovers
Lovers is an unspecified painting by the Bauhaus artist Paul Klee. It dates from 1920 and is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Subject & Meaning
Klee employs simplified forms to convey emotional resonance rather than literal narrative, characteristic of his poetic approach to visual imagery.
The painting depicts an intimate human connection through abstracted figures, in keeping with its title and with Klee's interest in symbolic relationships in modern art. Klee employs simplified forms to convey emotional resonance rather than literal narrative, characteristic of his poetic approach to visual imagery. The work measures 25.1 cm in height and is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Technique & Style
The work is a painting measuring 25.1 cm in height. Klee reduces his figures to essential contours and planar areas of muted color, emphasizing rhythmic linearity over volumetric modeling. The flat, graphic character and schematic rendering of the figures evoke a schematic intimacy rather than descriptive realism.
History & Provenance
Lovers is a painting by Paul Klee dated to 1920. It is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which records an inception date of 1920. The work measures 25.1 cm in height.
The available sources do not specify the medium beyond identifying it as a painting, nor do they document a commission, prior owners, an accession number, or any past exhibitions.
Overview
Created in 1920, Lovers is an oil painting by Paul Klee, the Swiss‑German artist active in the Bauhaus school. The work presents two interlocking silhouettes rendered in stark geometric forms against a striped field of red, brown and yellow. It now belongs to the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Artist
Paul Klee (German:; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist.
