Curtis_O_Baer_2010

5. Paul Klee German, 1879 – 1940

Nude in Spiraling Movement (Akt in geschraubter Bewegung) 1933

Pencil on paper 16 1 ⁄ 4 x 12 5 ⁄ 8

inches ( 41 . 3 x 32 cm)

Signed lower left Titled and inscribed on the original mount: 1933 Y 8

provenance New Art Center Gallery, New York, 1962 ; Collection Curtis O. Baer

exhibitions Atlanta, 1985 , cat. no. 96 , p. 164 ; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Paul Klee 1933 , February 8 –May 4 , 2003 , extended to other institutions through March 2004 , cat. no. 268 , illus. Klee worked with many different types of media—oil paint, watercolor, ink, and more. The Baer drawing is an example of spontaneous or automatic drawing, popular at this period, by which the artist attempted to express his innermost feelings. The resulting fantastic figures become pictorial symbols of emotional states which Klee then sought to analyze in his notebooks.