01 / 05
The Ten Largest
1907
Ten huge paintings move through stages of life in spirals, letters and radiant colour - years before abstraction entered the standard history books.
Artist field note
Hilma Af Klint
Abstraction before the story said abstraction began.
Appears inThe Overlooked
The five in one idea
Af Klint complicates the familiar origin story of abstraction by arriving early and for entirely different reasons.