Cubism & Early Abstraction · 1862–1944 · Swedish
Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint's The Ten Largest (1907), each around three metres tall, are painted in pastel pinks, oranges, blues and lilacs. She kept her abstract work largely private; it became widely known only decades after her death.
Across 4 works, the colors are mostly white (26%), blue (19%) and orange (15%). On average the canvases are light, moderately saturated and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: scarlet orange, pale reddish tan, muted blue, white and pale muted pink.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 201 parchment 10.9% of canvas
- MG 026 scarlet orange 8.3% of canvas
- MG 205 white 7.8% of canvas
- MG 097 muted blue 7.3% of canvas
- MG 150 pale reddish tan 5.4% of canvas
- MG 199 pale muted cream 4.5% of canvas
- MG 098 dark muted azure blue 3.9% of canvas
- MG 025 light scarlet orange 3.3% of canvas
- MG 141 pale muted pink 3.2% of canvas
- MG 171 bone 2.9% of canvas
- MG 096 muted azure blue 2.7% of canvas
- MG 015 light red 2.5% of canvas
- MG 213 light grey 2.3% of canvas
- MG 094 light muted blue 2.1% of canvas
- MG 035 pale amber 2.0% of canvas
- MG 207 pale slate 1.9% of canvas