Hilma af Klint

The Ten Largest, No. 5 — Adulthood

US$ 654.00

One of ten enormous panels charting the stages of a human life, painted in a single burst over a few months in 1907. Adulthood brings looping forms, spirals and soft botanical shapes across a pale ground in a palette of blue, orange and rose. Painted on paper more than three metres tall — the scale is intrinsic to it.

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Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) trained at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and painted respectable landscapes and portraits in public, while privately producing, from 1906, some of the first purely abstract paintings in Western art — several years before Kandinsky, Mondrian or Malevich. She believed the work was dictated to her in seances and stipulated that it not be shown until twenty years after her death. It stayed largely unseen until the 1980s, and only in the last decade has she been recognised as a founder of abstraction.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 36 × 49 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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