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Kunstmuseum Basel

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Circular painting of a ragged beggar pleading before a richly dressed man, with a dog, townspeople and a town behind.

Episode uit de parabel van de Verloren Zoon: de Verloren Zoon wordt afgewezen door een rijke man

Jan de Beer, 1515

Painting of a red fox attacking a white rooster on a rock while three fox cubs watch from the shadows.

Fox Attacking a Cock

Benno Adam, 1855

Painting of the Virgin Mary crowned, holding the Christ Child, framed by cherubs and a Latin inscription on blue.

Virgin and Child

Ambrosius Holbein, 1514

Abstract painting by Paul Klee in red, black and brown with rectangular fields and a stick-like figure, titled Locksmith.

Locksmith

Paul Klee, 1940

Painting of a bearded man in a green cloak and white shirt holding a scroll, looking upward against a dark background.

St James the Greater

Painting of a red-haired girl in a red vest holding a white rat beside a table in a dim interior.

Red-Haired Girl with White Rat

Edvard Munch, 1886

Paul Klee's Villa R: geometric houses on a red hill beneath a yellow moon, with a large green letter R in the foreground.

Villa R

Paul Klee, 1919

Painting of a figure in a red robe leaning on a stone ledge in a dark, overgrown wooded landscape with a distant house.

Petrarch at the Spring of Vaucluse

Arnold Böcklin, 1867

Painting of a woman in a yellow robe holding stone tablets with inscriptions and a broken staff beside a blue banner.

Synagogue

Konrad Witz, 1435

Abstract watercolor by Paul Klee, 1921, showing a stylized garden of angular plants and muted grey and brown shapes.

Dry-Cool Garden

Paul Klee, 1921

Painting of a seated man offering an apple to a nude woman in a sunlit garden with a fountain, goats and companions.

The Judgment of Paris

Albert von Keller, 1891

Painting of two robed figures walking past a stone well toward a hilltop village under a stormy sky.

On the Way to Emmaus

Arnold Böcklin, 1868

Abstract watercolor of muted blue, green and gray rectangles with a small grid of windows, by Paul Klee, 1926.

erstes Haus einer Siedelung

Paul Klee, 1926

Cubist painting of a violin, bow and sheet music on a table, built from angular planes of grey, black and ochre.

The Violin

Juan Gris, 1916

Painting of a coastal landscape with hills, scattered trees, and a grey sea under a pale sky, in loose expressive brushwork.

Coastal Landscape (Paysage côtier)

Edvard Munch, 1918

Watercolor and ink drawing of balloons, sun discs, a crescent moon and towers floating in a pastel sky.

Im Reich der Luft

Paul Klee, 1917

Portrait of a bearded man in black with a lace collar, in front of a wall of paintings and an arcade.

Portrait of a painter

Anthony van Dyck, 1650

Painted self-portrait of a bearded man with green eyes in a dark jacket, against a striped blue and yellow background.

Self-Portrait with Japanese Print

Vincent van Gogh, 1887

Abstract grid of muted rectangular blocks in olive, rose, ochre and maroon tones against a dark background.

Ancient Sound

Paul Klee, 1925

Four-panel altarpiece: Adoration of the Magi above, and an angel and the Virgin Mary of the Annunciation below.

Die Anbetung der Könige; Verkündigung

Hans Baldung Grien

Cubist still life of a green bottle, white bowl, and newspaper reading LE JOUR in angular ochre, red and black planes.

Bottle and Fruit Bowl (Bottle, Newspaper and Fruit Bowl)

Juan Gris, 1916

Abstract watercolor by Paul Klee with overlapping triangles, a red arrow and soft muted washes of blue, grey and pink.

Geläute

Paul Klee, 1928

Oil painting of a grieving woman in a pale headscarf, hands clasped in prayer, tears on her cheeks, against a dark background

Mater dolorosa, Copy after Ribera

Théodore Géricault, 1811

Oil portrait of a man with curly auburn hair and a full red beard, wearing black clothing and a white lace ruff.

Portrait of the Doctor of the Elector of Brandenburg, Leonard Thurneysser zum Thurn of Basel

Frans Floris, 1569

Grid of painted squares in orange, blue, yellow, red, green and white arranged in a checkerboard pattern.

Colour Table “Qu 1”

Paul Klee, 1930

Portrait of Hans Herbst (Herbster)

Ambrosius Holbein, 1516

Painting of a stag hunt with deer swimming a river, hounds, mounted hunters, a boat of figures, and a distant city.

Stag Hunt

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1600

Paul Klee's 1919 watercolor Burggarten, a mosaic of geometric planes suggesting towers, arches and a stylized garden in paste

Burggarten

Paul Klee, 1919

Painting of Diana and companions hunting through a wooded landscape with a bow, hounds, and a stag near the sea.

Diana's Hunt

Arnold Böcklin, 1862

Painting of a laughing peasant in a bicorne hat holding a tankard at a tavern table.

Peasant with Bicorne and Tankard

Adriaen Brouwer, 1630