Chris Klein (visual artist)

Christopher Klein is a British visual artist based in Quebec, best known for his richly colored, hyperrealistic paintings portraying original scenic costumes from theatrical plays, films, and period collections.

His oeuvre was described as "a poetics of observation as a repeated and prolonged meditation on these beautiful fabrics, folds, pleats and colours".

[1][2][3][4][5] In Ontario, Klein he was hired as a Head of Scenic Art at the Stratford Festival.

[6] Klein has painted costumes from major productions such as The Phantom of the Opera, and exhibited them at Bernaducci Gallery.

[8] Klein painted costumes for the cover of a Disney brochure celebrating The Lion King's 20th anniversary in London.