Take the pencil
Jo Applin: Hilma af Klint’s Inner Eye, 16 March 2023
Hilma af Klint: The Complete Catalogue Raisonné
edited by Kurt Almqvist and Daniel Birnbaum.
Stolpe, 1569 pp., £250, November 2022,978 91 985236 6 9 Show More
edited by Kurt Almqvist and Daniel Birnbaum.
Stolpe, 1569 pp., £250, November 2022,
Hilma af Klint: A Biography
by Julia Voss, translated by Anne Posten.
Chicago, 448 pp., £28, October 2022,978 0 226 68976 0 Show More
by Julia Voss, translated by Anne Posten.
Chicago, 448 pp., £28, October 2022,
“... In 1932, aged seventy, Hilma af Klint rewrote her will. She stipulated that her paintings, notebooks, drawings and writings be kept from public view for at least twenty years after her death: by then, she hoped, audiences might be ready for her work. In the event, it took more than four decades for it to be seen in public. In 1986, a selection of paintings were included in The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art alongside work by better-known contemporaries including Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian ... ”
