Collection connections
Picasso
SA2.1970 |
Not on display
Robert Klippel, et al.
No 43 Fever chart 1948
During his six-week sea voyage to London in the 1940s, Klippel occupied himself by studying Picasso’s treatment of form. He remarked that ‘Picasso comes good for me because I can see how everything he did could have been translated into sculpture very easily’. Klippel explored the possibilities of painted assemblage – a method of building sculptures from disparate found objects, which Picasso had pioneered in the 1910s. No. 43 Fever chart, made from cut-out pieces of a jigsaw and lengths of dowel, represents Klippel’s fusion of cubism and surrealism – two approaches to art which Picasso had also brought together.