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af Klint, Hilma: Altarbild, Nr. 1, Gruppe X

🖼 Altarbild, Nr. 1, Gruppe X, 1915
Oil on canvas
237.5 × 179.5 cm
Stockholm, Sweden

Luminous geometric forms and radiating light dominate this vertical composition, rendered in soft, ethereal colors. Created in 1915, this abstract work pioneered non-representational art years before European modernism, establishing Klint as abstraction's true originator.

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E. H. Gombrich
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