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Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné Volume III: The Blue Books (1906-1915)

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Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné Volume III: The Blue Books (1906-1915) unveils the artist's preparatory sketches and studies that led to her magnum opus, The Paintings for the Temple. This volume offers insight into af Klint's early explorations of themes like evolution and duality, conveyed through vivid pastels and intricate geometric shapes. The Blue Books were af Klint's way of sharing her visionary work with friends before public exhibitions began decades later.
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This third volume of the artist’s catalogue raisonné collects sketches made in preparation for af Klint’s masterwork The Paintings for the Temple

This third volume of the artist's catalogue raisonné collects sketches made in preparation for af Klint's masterwork The Paintings for the Temple

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Hilma af Klint rarely exhibited her work during her lifetime, and her magnum opus, The Paintings for the Temple, was shown to the public in the series of exhibitions that started in 2013 at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and ended with the grand exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2018-19. This series of 193 paintings began with af Klint receiving communication from an otherworldly figure during a séance. Specific themes, such as evolution and duality, are conveyed through vivid pastel colour schemes and intricate geometric patterns arranged carefully on canvases that reach over ten feet in height.

This volume, the third in the artist's first seven-part catalogue raisonné, contains the sketches and preparatory work af Klint made in anticipation of The Paintings for the Temple. af Klint travelled with these sketchbooks so as to be able to show her friends her work in a more accessible format.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789189069244

Publisher: Stolpe Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 January 2021

Country: Sweden

Imprint: Stolpe Publishing

Illustration: 140 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 310.0mm

Weight: 1580g

Pages: 144

About the Author

Kurt Almqvist is the President of Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. Daniel Birnbaum is a Swedish art critic, the artistic director of Acute Art in London and former director of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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