Will Grohmann — Paul Klee

London, Lund Humphries, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this critical work on Swiss-born German artist, Paul Klee. First UK edition. Illustrated with thirty-five colour plates, over one hundred pages of black-and-white figures on plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. The life and works of Paul Klee, a Swiss-born German artist whose highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Includes chapters on his family, schooling, earliest works, Tunisian water colours, creative procedure, and more. Written by Will Grohmann, a German art critic and art historian who specialized in German Expressionism and abstract art, known as the "godfather of modernism". In the original black pictorial cloth. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with wear and light chipping to the extremities. Light loss to the head of the spine with small closed tears to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Paul Klee. Near Fine/Very Good.