![Paul Klee - Adam and Little Eve [1921] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_v6wcQKs84zVJ5rKSiBoByU_bCowmVDwIQllRKv0wEt2L8FPpZVnPPqtyTrOBatCeX75odgGpy8iLOZ-7GH2GVYjO3ooTfoT6-8vR8b27Vwq8pJJtrqxR_u05UMxUQhWg=s0-d)
In this watercolour, Klee somewhat expanded the story of the creation of man. His Eve, after growing from Adam's rib, stays right there. She also remains a child. Evchen (Little Eve) looks like a schoolgirl with flaxen hair tied in a braid. Adam is a broad-faced, grown man who sports earrings and a mustache. By placing the figures against a shallow ground with a reddish curtain, Klee seems to set the oddly matched pair on a puppet-theater stage.
[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper, 31.4 x 21.9 cm]
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