Seven lettered petals turn inside an oval on vermilion

On flat vermilion, bands of grey, gold and salmon enclose a black oval. Seven petals radiate from a white centre — white and cream above, red at the left with a white disc, pale pink below, blue with a pink disc, ochre at the upper right. Each carries a looping letter in dark ink and ends in a spiral. A thread drops from the centre to a small ball, and white script glyphs sit in the corners of the red ground.

Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was a Swedish painter who arrived at abstraction years before Kandinsky, Malevich or Mondrian. Trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and working professionally as a botanical and landscape painter, she began in 1906 the vast cycle she called The Paintings for the Temple — swans, altarpieces, spirals and the ten great sheets of The Ten Largest — guided by her involvement with theosophy and the spiritualist group known as The Five. Convinced the work would not be understood in her lifetime, she left instructions that it not be exhibited until twenty years after her death. Her paintings are held by the Hilma af Klint Foundation and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

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