The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint·The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood·1907·Tempera on paper, mounted on canvas·The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm↓

Hilma af Klint Swedish, 1862 – 1944

The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907

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Part of a series of ten huge panels on the stages of human life, from childhood to old age. Spirals, petals and letters float on a lavender ground. Painted years before Kandinsky's first abstractions, and almost unseen until the 1980s.

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The panels were painted on paper laid on the floor, so af Klint worked from above, sometimes on her knees.

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