Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

My pilgrimage to the site of Paul Klee's Hammamet with Its Mosque

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par Roger Benjamin, Professor in Art History, University of Sydney

In this new series, our writers introduce us to a favourite painting.

For almost as long as I can remember I have loved the pictures of Paul Klee (1879-1940). When I was growing up my parents owned a strange little lithograph by him called Phantom Perspective. It shows a wafer-thin man lying asleep in a dormitory of inflowing straight lines.

Like one of the curious fish in Klee’s child-like visual aquaria, I was hooked.

It was on his famous trip to Tunisia in April…

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