Comedians' Handbill, 1938, Gouache on newsprint mounted on cardboard, 21 1/2 ? 14 1/4 in. (54. 6 ? 36. 2 cm), Drawings, Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), Munchenbuchsee 1879?1940 Muralto-Locarno), In tune with the motto 'the medium is the message, ' Klee designed this handbill on a sheet of newspaper that he had covered with caramel-colored gouache. Correcting here and there the figures' contours, he filled the spaces between them with bone-colored gouache