中文简介：

绘画在Paul Klee（1879-1940）的作品中占据了突出的位置。这位艺术家非常重视绘画行为，特别是把线条作为实现和视觉生成一个想法的原则。Klee的这一方面引起了收藏家Sylvie和Jorge Helft的兴趣，他们在近五十年中收集了Klee在1914年至1940年期间创作的大约70幅铅笔、钢笔和粉笔画，以及水彩画、蚀刻画和石版画。Helft家的克利收藏形成了一个特别连贯的整体。

本书与卢加诺的意大利南部艺术博物馆（MASI）的展览同时出版，首次展示了克利作品中的这一独特选择。Helft夫妇与MASI馆长Tobia Bezzola的对话，以及哲学家Francisco Jarauta、艺术和文学评论家Juan Manuel Bonet和艺术经纪人兼策展人Achim Moeller的文章，使这本图文并茂的书更加完善。

英文简介：

Drawing occupies a prominent place in the work of Paul Klee (1879–1940). The artist attached great importance to the act of drawing, and in particular to the line as the principle from which the realization and visual generation of an idea emanate. This aspect of Klee's aer caught the interest of collectors Sylvie and Jorge Helft, who over almost five decades have assembled some seventy of Klee's pencil, pen, and pastel drawings, as well as watercolors, etchings, and lithographs, created by the artist between 1914 and 1940. The Helfts' Klee collection forms an extraordinarily coherent whole.

This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) in Lugano, features for the first time this unique selection from Klee's oeuvre. A conversation between the Helfts and MASI's director Tobia Bezzola, as well as essays by philosopher Francisco Jarauta, art and literary critic Juan Manuel Bonet, and art dealer and curator Achim Moeller, round out this lavishly illustrated volume.