David Zwirner is pleased to participate in the Frieze Masters Viewing Room with a presentation of late works by the Bauhaus master, Paul Klee. The works, which are highly diaristic and personal, highlight the diversity of Klee's practice and his skill as a colourist. Ranging in subject matter and style, the works all testify to Klee's restless drive to experiment with forms and materials, resulting in surfaces that are tactile, original and visually striking.
Colored paste and watercolor on primer and cardboard
11 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches
30 x 27 cm
Framed: 18 3/8 x 17 3/8 inches
46.6 x 44.2 cm
“Klee’s art is so unique because he can make a complete composition out of accidents, of oddities, which neither obeys the Renaissance nor the classical models....Every work is both fragment and whole.”—Dawn Ades, Paul Klee’s Late Work, Paul Klee: 1939
Paul Klee
Masken Im Zwielicht (Masks at twilight), 1938
Colored paste on cardboard on second cardboard
19 x 13 5/8 inches
(48.3 x 34.7 cm)
Framed: 23 x 17 3/4 inches
(58.5 x 45 cm)
Paul Klee
Besessen (Possessed), 1939
Watercolor, tempera, and pencil on paper on cardboard
Sheet: 10 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches
27 x 21.5 cm
Cardboard: 17 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches
45.5 x 35 cm
Framed: 20 1/8 x 15 7/8 inches
51.1 x 40.3 cm
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 12 7/8 inches
21 x 32.8 cm
Cardboard: 12 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches
32.5 x 47.5 cm
Framed: 14 7/8 x 21 inches
37.8 x 53.3 cm
Paul Klee
es kommt noch mehr (There is more to come), 1939
Pencil on paper on cardboard
Sheet: 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
29.7 x 20.9 cm
Cardboard: 19 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches
50 x 35 cm
Framed: 21 7/8 x 15 7/8 inches
55.6 x 40.3 cm
Paul Klee
Schema eines Kampfes (Diagram of a fight), 1939
Grease crayon and pencil on primed paper on cardboard
Sheet: 10 5/8-10 7/8 x 10 5/8-10 3/4 inches
26.9/27.3 x 27.1/27.5 cm
Cardboard: 19 1/8 x 25 5/8 inches
48.5 x 65 cm
Framed: 21 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
54 x 70.5 cm
Paul Klee
erzwungener Ausweg (Forced way out), 1934
Red chalk and pencil on paper on cardboard
Sheet: 16 1/2-16 5/8 x 12 3/8-13 1/2 inches
41.8/42.2 x 31.4/34.2 cm
Cardboard: 27 1/8 x 18 3/4 inches
68.8 x 47.5 cm
Framed: 29 1/4 x 21 inches
74.3 x 53.3 cm
“Klee managed the seemingly impossible. Out of the physical and emotional suffering of his exile he took his art through a final metamorphosis, achieved one last pinnacle. Like only Matisse and Picasso among modern artists, Klee created a late work of singular rank.” —Matthias Bärmann, Erfüllung im Spätwerk
Ohne Titel (Gitter und Schlangenlinien um "T") (Untitled [Grids and wavy lines around "T"]), c. 1939
Oil and colored paste on canvas
22 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches
56.5 x 25 cm
Paul Klee
Blumen auf dem Balkon (Flowers on the balcony), 1935
Watercolor on paper on cardboard
11 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches
30 x 47 cm
Framed: 20 7/8 x 26 7/8 inches
53 x 68.5 cm
Paul Klee
Maske "nach dem Verlust" (Mask "after the loss"), 1938
Colored paste on paper on cardboard
Sheet: 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
26.8 x 20.9 cm
Cardboard: 19 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches
50 x 35.2 cm
Framed: 21 3/4 x 16 inches
55.2 x 40.6 cm
Paul Klee
Zwei Dürstende (Two thirsty people), 1940
Colored paste and pen on paper on cardboard
Sheet: 17 3/8 x 17 3/8 inches
44 x 44 cm
Cardboard: 18 7/8 x 22 1/2 inches
48 x 57 cm
Framed: 21 1/8 x 24 7/8 inches
53.7 x 63.2 cm
Paul Klee
Mutter und Kind (Mother and child), 1939
Pencil on paper on cardboard
Sheet: 16 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches
43 x 27 cm
Cardboard: 19 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches
50 x 35 cm
Framed: 21 7/8 x 15 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches
55.6 x 40 x 3.8 cm
Paul Klee
Kämpft mit sich selber (Struggles with himself), 1939
Watercolor, grease crayon, and pencil on paper on cardboard
Sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 1/8 inches
29.5 x 20.6 cm
Cardboard: 19 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches
50 x 35 cm
Framed: 21 3/4 x 15 7/8 inches
55.2 x 40.3 cm
Paul Klee
wilder Mann (Wild man), 1939
Colored paste, crayon, and watercolor on paper on cardboard
Sheet: 11 1/2 x 8 1/8 inches
29.3 x 20.7 cm
Cardboard: 17 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches
45.5 x 35 cm
Framed: 20 1/4 x 15 7/8 inches
51.4 x 40.3 cm
Movement in the process of ‘form-creation’ was a constant preoccupation of Klee’s, including all aspects of movement—both that of the object in question, and also that of the ‘reading eye.’”—Dawn Ades, Paul Klee’s Late Work, Paul Klee: 1939