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拍品專文
This work is recorded under number 1927, 286 (Ue 6) in the artist's Werkkatalog at the Paul Klee Stiftung, Bern.
Executed in 1927 while Klee was teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau, the present work is a highly charismatic portrait from Klee's own unique universe of his imagination. Resembling the tearful clown with the mind of a child and the body of a man from the Comedia dell'Arte, Klee's Pierrot is a somewhat more tragic character than the original.
Shown stumbling from the left hand side of the picture, this sad-eyed character has an expression that conveys a sense of being accustomed to his own clumsiness and his tragic fate. With one arm displaying a comic mitten with a hand print on it, he appears to be waving, while in stark contrast, his other arm is represented by a wooden stump. With these two attributes, this Pierrot presents both his amiability and his wound. The absence of the one hand and, the covering of another, is perhaps intended to express Pierrot's tragic destiny and the perennial sufferer of unrequited love.
Painted on an exquisite mottled background, Klee delineates this tragi-comic character in elegant sweeping black lines and accentuates the sense of motion in the picture by framing the watercolour in black ink on all sides except the right hand side which is left open. This sense of motion is carried into the picture in a fluid form through the fine curving lines that, in the manner of a dancing calligraphy, construct the peculiar forms that together add up to create this striking image.
Executed in 1927 while Klee was teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau, the present work is a highly charismatic portrait from Klee's own unique universe of his imagination. Resembling the tearful clown with the mind of a child and the body of a man from the Comedia dell'Arte, Klee's Pierrot is a somewhat more tragic character than the original.
Shown stumbling from the left hand side of the picture, this sad-eyed character has an expression that conveys a sense of being accustomed to his own clumsiness and his tragic fate. With one arm displaying a comic mitten with a hand print on it, he appears to be waving, while in stark contrast, his other arm is represented by a wooden stump. With these two attributes, this Pierrot presents both his amiability and his wound. The absence of the one hand and, the covering of another, is perhaps intended to express Pierrot's tragic destiny and the perennial sufferer of unrequited love.
Painted on an exquisite mottled background, Klee delineates this tragi-comic character in elegant sweeping black lines and accentuates the sense of motion in the picture by framing the watercolour in black ink on all sides except the right hand side which is left open. This sense of motion is carried into the picture in a fluid form through the fine curving lines that, in the manner of a dancing calligraphy, construct the peculiar forms that together add up to create this striking image.