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Circles, stars, birds, and crescent shapes are painted against a tent-shaped structure in this pale-toned, abstracted watercolor and drawing. The tent shape has three peaks near the top and is stepped across the bottom. Where what might be called the roof flares over the straighter side walls are an R to the left and, to the right, an N with a curling, red swirl off the top right stem of the letter. Three gray birds with oversized blue eyes are painted in a field of other geometric shapes in shades of cobalt blue, muted purple, mint green, and faint yellow. A cluster of nested, curving pink…
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Persische Nachtigallen (Persian Nightingales)

Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879 - 1940)

1917

Medium
gouache, watercolor, and pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper, mounted on cardboard; the sheet bordered at the top with yellow paper strip mounted to support
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
overall: 22.8 x 18.1 cm (9 x 7 1/8 in.)
Culture
Swiss
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Gift of Catherine Gamble Curran and Family, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed

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