Group IX SUW, The Swan No. 1
1914 · oil on canvas
Dimensions (150 x 150 cm)
Collection: Art Whisperer
The Swan is a group of 24 oil on canvases made between 1914 and 1915. These paintings rely on both widely recognized symbolism and Hilma af Klint’s own idiosyncratic forms and symbols. In alchemy, the swan represents the union of opposites necessary for the creation of what is known as the philosopher’s stone. A substance believed to be capable of turning base metals into gold. Here, af Klint’s black-and-white palette underscores the dualities of light and dark, male and female, life and death.
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About this artwork
Group IX SUW, The Swan No. 1 (1914) by Hilma af Klint, oil on canvas, from the Art Whisperer collection.
About Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint (October 26, 1862 – October 21, 1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were among the first Western abstract art. A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky.
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