A Woman For Gods (1938)
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Klee made A Woman For Gods in December 1938, two years before his death, during the extraordinary final burst of work that saw him produce over a thousand pieces in 1939 alone. A figure is outlined in thick red lines against a churning field of red, pink, and white, with a single blue dot near the lower right. The late work is larger in scale and bolder in line than his Bauhaus-era paintings — the fine crosshatching and delicate color of the 1920s replaced by heavy, simplified forms. Klee was suffering from scleroderma by this point, the autoimmune disease that would kill him in 1940, and the speed and scale of his late output is partly a response to knowing he was running out of time.