Artist: Paul Klee
Title: Angel Of Death
Date: 1940
[Oil on canvas / Felix Klee collection]
'The irrational forces of the unconscious were very real to Klee, never more so than in the paintings of his final years... The Angel of Death.. is a hieroglyph for those Rilkean guardian figures that Klee felt were watching and waiting for him, heralds of impending death. Yet it transcends Klee's personal situation with the power of a universal image, and reminds us of the strange durability of the visual symbol, rooted in some sort of human pre-consciousness...'
