Hilma af Klint · 1915
Altarpiece, No. 1
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A rainbow pyramid of stacked colour fields rises to a black triangle beneath a golden sun with a green and lilac halo. Group X, Altarpiece No. 1, from The Paintings for the Temple. Hilma af Klint Foundation.
Up to 12 × 15.9 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Altarpiece, No. 1
Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first major abstract works in Western art. She painted The Paintings for the Temple between 1906 and 1915, kept the work largely unseen, and asked that it not be shown until twenty years after her death in 1944. Her work reached a wide public with the 2018-19 Guggenheim retrospective.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered to be among the first major abstract works in Western art history. A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian. She belonged to a group called "The Five", a circle of women inspired by Theosophy who shared a belief in the importance of trying to contact the "High Masters", often through séances. Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas.
All Hilma af Klint prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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