Paul Klee · 1922
Red Balloon
Posters from $15 · Canvas from $39
Klee's floating city of pastel rectangles with a single bright red disc rising above the rooftops. Guggenheim, New York.
Up to 15 × 16 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Red Balloon
Klee's 1922 Red Balloon is a floating city of muted pastel rectangles with a single bright red disc — the balloon — rising into the air above the rooftops. Painted during his early years teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar, the painting was acquired by Solomon Guggenheim in the 1930s and is today one of the founding works of the Guggenheim collection in New York. Quiet, exact, joyful — the Klee painting people most want on their wall.
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.
All Paul Klee prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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