Klee display for the New Year

The work of Paul Klee, the hugely influential Swiss artist, is to be the subject of a major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery curated by one of Britain's most important abstract painters, Bridget Riley.

Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation, will bring together more than 90 of his paintings, watercolours and drawings, many of them never before seen in London.

Riley is co-curator of the exhibition alongside the art historian Robert Kudielka, and between them they have attempted to follow Klee's own artistic concerns as the basis for the show.

Many of his works are familiar and enduringly popular among calendar and postcard-buyers. Riley believes he was one of the most influential figures in the canon of modern art.

Riley, who was nine when Klee died in 1940, said: "The only other exhibition I have curated was the Mondrian at the Tate. Mondrian and Klee were both, in different ways, pioneers of abstraction, although Klee is possibly a more complex figure."

The exhibition is from 17 January until 1 April.

www.hayward.org.uk/klee