The Museum of Modern Art's ambitious 2014 retrospective of the German artist Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) encompassed much of his peripatetic travels from medium to medium but stinted on the ravishing, unsettling, sometimes abject beauty that is strongest in his paintings.
"Eine Winterreise," at David Zwirner, corrects that shortcoming. Organized by Vicente Todolí, it's a complete knockout of 31 works on canvas, printed fabric, clear plastic and semitransparent polyester, most of them dating from the 1980s. The show's title, which translates as "A Winter’s Journey," nods toPolke's travels during the 1980s to climes tropical and chilly that affected his subject matter and sense of color.
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