{"title":"Paul Klee","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Klee (1879–1940, Münchenbuchsee\/Muralto) was a Swiss-German painter, draughtsman, and theorist whose practice moved across abstraction, figuration, symbolism, and music-inflected composition across four decades. Associated with the Bauhaus, where he taught from 1921 to 1931, and with Der Blaue Reiter, his work engaged with colour, line, form, and the relationship between visual art and language. His theoretical writings, including the \u003cem\u003ePedagogical Sketchbook\u003c\/em\u003e (1925) and \u003cem\u003eThinking Eye\u003c\/em\u003e (1961), remain central texts in twentieth-century art education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlee’s posthumous reputation was shaped in part by Galerie Berggruen, Paris, which distributed his works on paper through albums and exhibitions in the 1950s and 1960s, playing a key role in his canonisation within the postwar European art market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection gathers exhibition invitations, catalogues, and printed matter relating to Klee’s practice and posthumous exhibition history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"paul-klee-12-aquarelles-galerie-berggruen-paris-1964","title":"Paul Klee — 12 Aquarelles, Galerie Berggruen, Paris, 1964","description":"\u003cp\u003eGalerie Berggruen, 70 Rue de l’Université, Paris VII\u003cbr\u003eOriginal folded exhibition invitation card\u003cbr\u003eOrange folded card; black printed text and line drawing to recto; exhibition text to interior\u003cbr\u003eImage after \u003cem\u003ePerspective — Raum Clu\u003c\/em\u003e, 1928\/29\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 5 October – 30 November 1964\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Sun-fading and toning, light edge wear, handling marks, and age-related discoloration consistent with period exhibition ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal invitation issued to coincide with the publication of \u003cem\u003ePaul Klee — 12 Aquarelles\u003c\/em\u003e, a Berggruen portfolio project circulating Klee’s works on paper through a postwar Paris market. The printed image reproduces a perspective drawing from 1928\/29 — part of Klee’s ‘ghost chamber’ works, where perspective is treated as unstable structure: interior space reduced to a skeletal, almost theatrical diagram.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the 1960s, Klee’s position had shifted from Bauhaus-era experimenter to canonised modernist. Berggruen’s programme played a key role in this transition, distributing his work through albums, exhibitions, and printed matter that functioned as both documentation and extension of the work itself. This card sits precisely in that space: a small-format support where reproduction, publication, and exhibition converge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA minor but exact object — paper carrying the afterlife of a 1920s drawing into 1964 Paris circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat with protective backing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53465081446738,"sku":"PK-12A-GB-1964","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Klee_Paul.GalerieBerggruenexhibitioncard.19641-sunbleachedfront.jpg?v=1778993110"},{"product_id":"paul-klee-12-aquarelles-galerie-berggruen-paris-1964-ii","title":"Paul Klee — 12 Aquarelles, Galerie Berggruen, Paris, 1964 [II]","description":"\u003cp\u003eGalerie Berggruen, 70 Rue de l’Université, Paris VII\u003cbr\u003eOriginal folded exhibition invitation card\u003cbr\u003eOrange folded card; black printed text and line drawing to recto; exhibition text to interior\u003cbr\u003eImage after \u003cem\u003ePerspective — Raum Clu\u003c\/em\u003e, 1928\/29\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 5 October – 30 November 1964\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with period exhibition ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal invitation issued to coincide with the publication of \u003cem\u003ePaul Klee — 12 Aquarelles\u003c\/em\u003e, a Berggruen portfolio project circulating Klee’s works on paper through a postwar Paris market. The printed image reproduces a perspective drawing from 1928\/29 — part of Klee’s ‘ghost chamber’ works, where perspective is treated as unstable structure: interior space reduced to a skeletal, almost theatrical diagram.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe card is orange throughout. Not as ground for text or image, but as field — a single chromatic decision that holds the drawing, the typography, and the blank interior panel inside the same vivid plane. The colour does not illustrate the work. It is the work’s first condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerggruen’s programme played a key role in Klee’s postwar canonisation, distributing his work through albums, exhibitions, and printed matter that functioned as both documentation and extension of the work itself. This card sits precisely in that space: a small-format support where reproduction, publication, and exhibition converge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA minor but exact object — paper carrying the afterlife of a 1920s drawing into 1964 Paris circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat with protective backing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53465256132946,"sku":"PK-12A-GB-1964-II","price":160.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Klee_Paul.GalerieBerggruenexhibitioncard.19642-goodcopyfront.jpg?v=1778994432"},{"product_id":"paul-klee-musee-national-art-moderne-paris-1969","title":"Paul Klee — Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, 1969","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrench Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Paris\u003cbr\u003eExhibition invitation (carton d’invitation)\u003cbr\u003eBlind-embossed laid card; offset lithograph reproduction to recto; printed invitation text to interior\u003cbr\u003eInauguration: Tuesday 25 November 1969, 15h–20h\u003cbr\u003eMusée National d’Art Moderne, 13 avenue du Président Wilson, Paris 16\u003cbr\u003eInvitation valid for two persons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Even toning to laid stock, light handling wear consistent with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOfficial invitation issued under the authority of the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs for a major retrospective of Paul Klee at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris. The card is printed on high-quality laid paper bearing a blind-embossed manufacturer’s mark (‘LES MANUFACTURES D’ANSONS’), situating it within a tradition of refined French art publishing and state-issued cultural material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recto reproduces Klee’s 1924 drawing \u003cem\u003eIn der Segel-von-Taschen-Klip-Klap-Anstalt\u003c\/em\u003e, produced during his Bauhaus years. The work stages a mechanical, quasi-architectural fiction — part satire, part diagram — reflecting Klee’s resistance to rigid functionalism and his insistence on intuition within structured systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interior text formalises the invitation through Monsieur Edmond Michelet, then Minister of State for Cultural Affairs, marking the exhibition as a state-level cultural event. The card operates less as a simple announcement and more as an administrative object: a controlled document issued to a limited network of officials, collectors, and institutional figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted support for the alignment of artist, state, and institution. A minor document carrying the consolidation of Klee within postwar French cultural policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat with protective backing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Musée National d’Art Moderne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53465970213202,"sku":"PK-MNAM-1969","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Klee_Paul._National_Museum_of_Modern_Art_Paris._Show_invitation._1969_front.jpg?v=1778995207"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/paul-klee.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}