Why it matters
A straight main road, divided into bands of colour, runs to a blue horizon, while side roads twist and sometimes end in nothing. Klee painted it after his second trip to Egypt.
Did you know?
- It was painted in January 1929.
- It belongs to his series of layer and stripe paintings.
- It is in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
Based on the Wikipedia article Highway and Byways (CC BY-SA 4.0).
