Paul Klee · 1922

Red Balloon

Name: Red Balloon by Paul Klee
Brand: Chromora
SKU: klee-red-balloon
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Klee's floating city of pastel rectangles with a single bright red disc rising above the rooftops. Guggenheim, New York.

Up to 15 × 16 in · portrait

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of Red Balloon

Klee's 1922 Red Balloon is a floating city of muted pastel rectangles with a single bright red disc — the balloon — rising into the air above the rooftops. Painted during his early years teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar, the painting was acquired by Solomon Guggenheim in the 1930s and is today one of the founding works of the Guggenheim collection in New York. Quiet, exact, joyful — the Klee painting people most want on their wall.

About the artist

Paul Klee

Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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