Paul Klee - Lady Demon, 1935

Lady Demon was created in 1935 during a period of artistic helplessness and the search for new means of expression. Klee was caught in a creative crisis due to his exile in Berne, the unhealthy political developments in Germany and above all, also due to the constantly deteriorating state of his health. This work is a typical example of the transition phase to his late style which commenced after 1936. In falling back onto earlier subjects and forms which Klee by enlarging the scale and with the help of a new title filled with new content, he was on the way to a new more concentrated pictorial language.