Garden in St. Germain, The European Quarter Near Tunis

A loosely built landscape unfolds through blocks of color, where houses, plants, and paths dissolve into geometric fragments rather than solid forms. Soft blues, greens, pinks, and earthy browns overlap and shift, giving the scene a quiet, fractured rhythm rather than a clear view of any single street or garden. The composition reads as an abstraction of a place more than a literal record of it. Painted in 1914, this watercolor is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Paul Klee (1879–1940), a German-Swiss artist associated with the Bauhaus, created work that moved between structure and dreamlike color. Looking closely, the layered patches of pigment seem to float independently, as if the garden and its surrounding buildings were assembled from loose, translucent panes of color rather than drawn lines.