Villa R

Villa R is an oil-on-carton painting from 1919 by the Swiss-born German artist Paul Klee.

[1] The work depicts a white villa standing beside a red road winding into the mountains beyond.

[2] In the foreground is a large capital letter R which appears to be a part of the landscape.

The red road forms a diagonal across the painting and a row of green shapes, including the green letter R, form a second intersecting diagonal.

The significance of the letter R is not revealed in the painting's title, but is believed to stand for Rosa.