This mid-period Paul Klee painting displays the artist at his strongest in terms of use of color. Strong Dream is an arresting piece. It depicts an abstracted figure, sleeping beneath a huge, vibrantly coloured moon, in the crescent of which rests a red circle. The celestial features are set in the darkest black, framed in a lighter tone which seems at first glance to have been hastily sketched around. But nothing in Klee is done hastily. A hard man to pin down stylistically, his ouevre takes in everything from Cubism to Expressionism and Surrealism. An excellent draughtsman, Klee was as happy working with precision in ink on paper as he was daubing abstract canvases, his overriding principle was to explore radical ideas. Everything in this painting is there for a reason. Published by Tushita in Germany.