An exhibition about a painter at la Cité de la Musique, the centre for all things musical? Couldn’t be more suited…German painter Paul Klee is most definitely the most well known for his paintings, but we often forget that he was also a violinist of the highest level, with a strong link between his music and his paintings.

This large exhibition takes a chronological look at how his two passions interacted over the years, elevating Klee to be status of one the early 20th century’s greatest artists.Apart from over 100 paintings on show, the exhibition also has a kids workshop, debates, concerts, an intinerant concert winding its way through the exhibition on Sunday 11th December and a catalogue from publishers Actes Sud (208 pages, 42.75€ on amazon.fr here).The Paul Klee Polyphonies exhibition is at the Cité de la Musique (here) from 18th October 2011 – 15th January 2012

Open Tuesday – Saturday from midday – 6pm and Sundays from 10am – 6pm. Alos opening on the evenings with concerts (certain nights between 19th and 29th October) until 8pm. Closed Xmas day and 1st January

Admission: 8€ / 5€

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Those of you with good French can get a lot more info from the official press release below. Click the first button bottom right to go into fullscreen mode. Or simply click here.