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Created after his trip to Egypt, featuring colourful horizontal bands with geometric shapes (likely Giza pyramids) symbolising desert architecture, and housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Artist: Paul Klee (1879–1940).


Date: 1929.


Medium: Gypsum and watercolour on canvas.


Subject: Abstract depiction of Egyptian monuments, specifically referencing the pyramids at Giza with its triangular forms.


Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York.


Style: Blends expressionism, cubism, and surrealism, characteristic of Klee's Bauhaus period, using layered colours and delicate lines. 

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