Æsthetic Circus

Paul Klee  Red green and Violet-Yellow Rhythms  1920  Oil and ink on cardboard  14 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. (37.5 x 33.7 cm)  Klee did not embrace abstraction in sheer pursuit of some deep spiritual goal, as did Kandinsky and Mondrian. Instead, as his titles playfully indicate, he just tried to keep reality at bay. When the artist began to work earnestly in oil in 1919, he painted a series of small works, mostly on cardboard, that had as their subject matter magic landscapes or gardens. Here the little fir trees placed on a sort of Cubist ground evoke some enchanted forest.

Salvo (Leonforte, Sicily, 1947–2015 Turin) Minareto, 1990, signed and dated on the reverse Salvo 90, oil on canvas, 35 x 25 cm, framed Photo-certificate by the artist

Pablo Picasso Corbeille et Fruits, signed, dated Picasso 20.6.1920, gouache on greyish paper, 22 x 31.5 cm

Gabriele Münter (Berlin 1877-1962 Murnau/Upper Bavaria) A view of a lake (Staffelsee), Gabriele Münter Nachlass [“Estate of Gabriele Münter”] oil on cardboard 17.5 x 23.2 cm, framed

Emil Nolde (Nolde, Schleswig, 1867-1956 Seebüll) Still life with figure of rider, c. 1930, signed Nolde, watercolour on Japan paper, 27.5 x 45.3 cm, framed, (PS)

  Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn 1886 - 1980 Villeneuve) A chestnut branch, signed, dated O. Kokoschka 64, watercolour on paper, 63 x 48.5 cm, framed

  Alfons Walde (Oberndorf 1891-1958 Kitzbühel) Lake Schwarzsee with the Wild Kaiser mountains, Kitzbühel, c. 1930, signed A. Walde, oil on cardboard, 42 x 63 cm, framed, (K)