Description
Issued for an April 11–23, 1955 exhibition at the Curt Valentin Gallery in New York, this small catalog documents a group of then “unknown” drawings by Paul Klee—works that extend his familiar visual language into more private, exploratory territory. Valentin’s gallery played a key role in introducing European modernists to American audiences, and ephemeral catalogs like this were often the first point of contact for collectors and institutions encountering these works firsthand.
The booklet’s strength is its directness: a straightforward catalog of sixty-six drawings, many rendered in Klee’s distinctive linear shorthand—part architecture, part notation, part dream logic. Pieces like this were never meant to last, which is exactly why they do—surviving as quiet records of how Klee’s work was first framed and circulated in the U.S. market.
Early Klee exhibition material, modestly produced and increasingly hard to find.
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