Anita Klein is a British painter and printmaker born in Australia. .

Anita Klein studied at Chelsea School of Art and the Slade School of Art in London

London

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. From 2003 - 2006 she was president of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (PRE).
She has work in many private and public collections in Europe

Europe

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, the USA

United States

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 and Australia

Australia

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, including the Arts Council of Great Britain

Arts Council of Great Britain

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, the British Museum

British Museum

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 and the British Library

British Library

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. She has had many solo exhibitions in the London as well as worldwide, and two monograph

Monograph

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s of her paintings have been published.

Anita Klein now divides her time between studios in London and in Italy

Italy

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Criticism

It is nice to have a real humorist recruited to the ranks of gifted painters. She is to be congratulated on livening up our dreary lives.

John Russell Taylor

John Russell Taylor

John Russell Taylor is an English critic and author. He is the author of critical studies of British theatre; of critical biographies of such important figures in Anglo-American film as Alfred Hitchcock, Alec Guinness, Orson Welles, Vivien Leigh, and Ingrid Bergman; of Strangers in Paradise: The...

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Ravel said he wanted his music to be complex, but not complicated. Anita Klein might say the same of her art. There is a grand simplicity to her works, but that is not the same as saying that they lack subtlety and ambiguity. On the contrary, they have the sort of unselfconscious directness that comes from living and breathing art for so long that it becomes second nature.

External links

• www.anitaklein.com
• www.banksidegallery.com
• www.advancedgraphics.co.uk
• www.thefineartpartnership.co.uk
• www.boudarygallery.com
• http://www.hackwoodartfestival.co.uk/reviews.php
• "Anita Klein", The Times