in the last years of his life. In his small flat he churned out hundreds of lively drawings with a feverish intensity, and painted some of his largest, boldest canvasses (such as “Park near Lu” from 1938, pictured left). “I can no longer keep up with these children of mine,” he wrote to his son in December 1939. “They run away with me.” Klee created more than 1,250 works that year. Klee’s artistic output was so vital and varied that “not even Picasso approaches him in sheer inventiveness,” observed Alfred Barr junior, a former director of New York’s MoMA, in 1945. Yet Klee’s gifts are often overlooked. Barr reckoned that this was because unlike the “roar or stamp” of Picasso’s pictures, Klee’s “whisper a soliloquy”. Perhaps Tate’s show will encourage more people to lean in and listen.
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