Paul Klee Work, Delayed by War in Iran, Is Finally in New York
An exhibition of Swiss German artist Paul Klee, at New York’s Jewish Museum, is now complete, thanks to the arrival of a long-delayed loan from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Angelus Novus (1920) has now taken its place in “Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds,” which opened March 20 and focuses on work from the last decade of the artist’s life. The piece, measuring just 12 inches high, was previously stuck in Israel as a result of the war that country and the US are waging in Iran, which began with major joint bombardments on February 28. Related Articles Up until Monday, it was represented by an authorized facsimile and a note in accompanying wall text reading, “Due to current conditions affecting international transport, the shipment of the original artwork has been temporarily delayed.” The facsimile was originally planned to replace the work a month into the show, since the piece, an oil transfer and watercolor on paper, is extremely light-sensitive. The final decade of the artist’s life was itself marked by its own fraught geopolitics, …
