Hilma af Klint rarely exhibited her work during her lifetime, and her masterpiece, The Temple Paintings, was only presented to the public in the series of exhibitions that began in 2013 at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and culminated in the major exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2018-19.

This series of 193 paintings originated when af Klint received communication from an otherworldly figure during a séance. Through vibrant pastel colour schemes and complex geometric patterns carefully arranged on canvases that exceed three metres in height, the artist captured specific themes such as evolution and duality.

This volume, the third in the seven-part catalogue raisonné devoted to the artist, brings together the sketches and preparatory works that af Klint made in anticipation of The Temple Paintings. The artist travelled with these sketchbooks so that she could show her work to her friends in a more accessible way.

Publisher: Bokförlaget Stolpe