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Fish drift across a deep green-black ground: a pink fish with spiky markings at the left, a golden fish with a cross-hatched flank and a blue fish patterned in white at the centre, and smaller fish in ochre and orange around them. A tall tent-like tower holding a round clock face rises at the centre, a thin line running from its peak toward the right, and a small figure with pink hands and feet stands below it. A blue disc holding a yellow moon, a daisy and vases of flowers, red and pink discs balanced on hourglass shapes, and scattered stars fill the dark field.
Klee made Fish Magic in 1925 by laying a delicate black surface over an underlayer of colours and scratching his designs through the black paint. At the centre a square of muslin is glued onto the canvas, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art reads the long diagonal line above it as poised to whisk this curtain away. Galka E. Scheyer held the painting in California from 1933 to 1937; Louise and Walter Arensberg then bought it and gave it to the museum in 1950.
Paul Klee (1879–1940) was one of the most inventive artists of the twentieth century. Swiss-born and trained in Munich, he joined Kandinsky and Marc in the Blaue Reiter circle, found colour on a journey to Tunisia in 1914, and taught at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1931, where his lectures on line, tone and colour became a theory of pictorial form. His small paintings and drawings move between geometry, script, humour and dream. After the Nazi regime dismissed him in 1933 he returned to Bern. His work is held by the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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