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(KLEE, PAUL). Klee, Paul. Jurg Spiller, Editor. Translated from the German by Heinz Norden. New York: George Wittenborn, Inc., 1973. First American Edition. Stout Square 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Very Good/Near Fine. 456pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Published as the seventeenth installment of the Robert Motherwell-edited Wittenborn series "The Documents of Modern Art", this is the second of two volumes of translated writings by the renowned late Swiss artist and Bauhaus instructor Paul Klee. Distilled from over twenty-five hundred pages of text, this massive study beautifully illustrates Klee's ideas on form and artistic creation with reproductions from sketchbooks, drawings and paintings. A most handsome example of the 1973 Wittenborn first edition showing a bit of soiling to the edges of the textblock. 0-8150-0040-5 Inventory Number: 027376