Portrait of a Pregnant Woman (Bildnis Einer Schwangeren Frau)
1907
Paul Klee
Swiss, 1879-1940
European Art
This portrait of Paul Klee’s pregnant wife, Lily, verges on caricature. The work’s bold, graphic strokes, which deftly sweep across the woman’s hair and shoulders, prefigure the energetic lines that characterize Klee’s later, abstracted works, such as the lithograph on view nearby.