Red Balloon

Identifier (Dublin Core): 48.1172.524
Title (Dublin Core): Red Balloon
Description (Dublin Core): The artist often transformed his experiments in tonal value and line into visual anecdotes. Red Balloon, for example, is at once a cluster of delicately colored, floating geometric shapes and a charming cityscape. Runner at the Goal is an essay in simultaneity; overlapping and partially translucent bars of color illustrates the consecutive gestures of a figure in motion. The flailing arms and sprinting legs add a comic touch to this figure, on whose forehead the number “one” promises a winning finish.
Artist (Dublin Core): Paul Klee
Date (Dublin Core): 1922
Subject (Dublin Core): Painting
Medium (Dublin Core): oil painting (technique)
Dimensions (Dublin Core): 12 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (31.8 x 31.1 cm)
Provenance (Dublin Core): Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase
Rights (Dublin Core): © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Source (Dublin Core): Guggenheim Collection. Item: 48.1172.524