Senecio Size:36-40 painted between 1503 and 1506

painted between 1503 and 1506

Gustav Klimt painted 'The Kiss' between 1907 and 1908

Mankes died of tuberculosis at the age of 30

he composed this playful work that blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy

Senecio Size:36-40 painted between 1503 and 1506Paul Klee painted Senecio in 1922 while working at the Bauhaus art school in Weimar. You see a round face, built up from patches of orange, pink, yellow and white. The eyes are not level. The expression is hard to place: it seems to sit somewhere between calm and confusion. The official name of the painting is 'Head of a Man Going Senile', but the face feels both childlike and wise at the same time. There is something in it that stays with you. The