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In 1928-29, the Swiss-German expressionist Paul Klee travelled across Egypt, traversing from Alexandria and Cairo down to Luxor and Aswan. Among the works his trip inspired is the Monument an der Grenze des Fruchtlandes (Monument at the Border of the Fertile Land), a dreamlike linear abstraction depicting the irrigated farmlands along the Nile – a landscape practically unchanged since Biblical times – as a multitude of watercolour striations.
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