Variations (Progressive Motif), 1927, Oil and watercolor on canvas, 16 x 15 3/4 in. (40. 6 x 40 cm), Paintings, Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), Munchenbuchsee 1879?1940 Muralto-Locarno), Klee gridded this small canvas in such a way that the design looks like slightly irregular graph paper or a pattern of parquetry boards. Due to a variation in the same motif?horizontally striped, light blue squares on the outside versus ivory-shaded ones with diagonal and crisscross lines toward the center?there emerges a subtly patterned image that anticipates Minimalist painting by about forty years