Paul Klee
10 - Untitled (Three flowers in a Pot), around 1920
Oil on canvas, 14,5 x 31 cm
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Depositum aus Privatbesitz, Schweiz
Even a successful artist like Klee had to economise on his materials. Canvases containing rejected compositions were often reused.
The factual and descriptive title Three Flowers in a Pot was given posthumously to this work by Klee’s son Felix. Klee painted the work in oil on canvas in 1920. Yet he did not include it in his catalogue raisonné and left it untitled.
The back also contains a painting by Klee. It is primed with a black base, upon which Klee has painted a landscape with flowers and colourful dots that could be read as flowers or fruits.
Felix also gave this work a title. This time he came up with something more poetic: Flame Trees Blossoming in the Night.