Angel, Still Groping is a watercolor on paper painting by Swiss German painter Paul Klee, from 1939. it is held at the Zentrum Paul Klee, in Bern.
[1] Klee, after his dismissal in Germany as a professor, and his qualification as a “degenerate artist”, after the Nazi takeover, in 1933, settled in Switzerland, his country of birth.
His angels are depicted with childish humour, and are not transcendent mystical beings.
[2][3] Klee's angel in this painting has a childish appearance, still groping, with blond hair, large blue eyes, and a red mouth, and is tilted down to the right of the painting.
The outstretched arm of the angel, with three fingers and his thumb pointing forward, divides the image into a light upper and dark lower half.