Hilma af Klint · 1915

The Swan, No. 17

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A red field holds a disc split into black and white and yellow and blue halves. The Swan, No. 17, Group IX/SUW, from The SUW/UW Series. Hilma af Klint Foundation.

Up to 12 × 12 in · square

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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Hand-printed in Ottawa

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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.

About this painting

The story of The Swan, No. 17

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.

About the artist

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.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Frequently asked

The Swan, No. 17— questions & answers

›What is Hilma af Klint's Swan No. 17?

Painted in 1915 as part of The SUW/UW Series (Group IX), it shows a disc on a red field divided into black and white and yellow and blue halves — one of af Klint's Swan paintings built on pairs of opposites.

›Can I buy a Swan No. 17 canvas print in Canada?

Yes — Chromora prints Swan No. 17 on museum-quality archival cotton canvas, hand-finished in Ottawa and shipped across Canada. A single print over $50 CAD ships free.

›Where is the original Swan No. 17?

The original is cared for by the Hilma af Klint Foundation.

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