In Paul Klee’s painting of 1932 entitled ‘Fruit’ there is on the right-hand side a small element of similar shape with a painted cross, and from this Baldwin created ‘Klee vessel 1’ and then developed a series of ‘dancing vessels’. Gordon and Nancy Baldwin share a keen interest in the ballet, and so the theme has a personal relevance. This first version is the simplest, suggesting a dancer in a plain shift balanced on one foot (actually a very small base), and one can imagine the figure extended into space in an arabesque.