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\n\tAn exhibition of Swiss German artist Paul Klee, at New York\u2019s Jewish Museum, is now complete, thanks to the arrival of a long-delayed loan from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
Angelus Novus <\/em>(1920) has now taken its place in \u201cPaul Klee: Other Possible Worlds,\u201d which opened March 20 and focuses on work from the last decade of the artist\u2019s 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tUp until Monday, it was represented by an authorized facsimile and a note in accompanying wall text reading, \u201cDue to current conditions affecting international transport, the shipment of the original artwork has been temporarily delayed.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n \n\tThe final decade of the artist\u2019s life was itself marked by its own fraught geopolitics, with the political upheaval and global conflict that racked the world in the 1930s, prior to Klee\u2019s death in 1940.<\/p>\n \n\tThe work was famously once owned by German philosopher Walter Benjamin. Perhaps best known for his seminal 1936 essay \u201cThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,\u201d Benjamin bought Angelus Novus <\/em>in 1921. He would ponder the figure it represents in his 1940 essay \u201cTheses on the Philosophy of History,\u201d writing, \u201cThere is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus<\/em>. An angel is depicted there who looks as though he were about to distance himself from something which he is staring at. His eyes are opened wide, his mouth stands open and his wings are outstretched. The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet.\u201d<\/p>\n Angelus Novus <\/em>will be the subject of a June 4 lecture by Annie Bourneuf, a professor of art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe status of the war in Iran has been clouded by contrasting messaging from its various participants, but on Sunday both US president Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in separate interviews with different TV news programs, said that the war is not over. The conflict has resulted in as many as 9,000 deaths and more than 40,000 injuries, principally in Iran but also in Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Trump said on Monday that a ceasefire is \u201con life support\u201d after Iran\u2019s rejection of the latest US peace proposal.<\/p>\n \n\tWith some 100 paintings and drawings, \u201cPaul Klee: Other Possible Worlds\u201d remains on view through July 26. It is curated by Mason Klein, senior curator emeritus, and organized by the Jewish Museum in collaboration with the Zentrum Paul Klee and the Kunstmuseum Bern.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/paul-klee-israel-delayed-war-iran-new-york-show-1234785012\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2213958642.jpg?w=1024″] An exhibition of Swiss German artist Paul Klee, at New York\u2019s Jewish Museum, is now complete, thanks to the arrival of a long-delayed loan from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. 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