The Seven-Pointed Star, No. 1
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Hilma af Klint made The Seven-Pointed Star, No. 1 in 1908 as part of The Paintings for the Temple, a cycle of 193 works she produced between 1906 and 1915. Oil and graphite on paper. Seven overlapping petal-shaped lobes radiate from a central point, filled with a warm tan-gold and outlined in alternating blue and yellow lines. The lobes are arranged asymmetrically, most of the form occupies the upper right, with a single lobe extending downward and the lower left corner left as bare white paper. A small solid red circle sits in the upper right corner. Af Klint began The Paintings for the Temple in 1906, producing large-scale abstract compositions years before Kandinsky, Mondrian, or Malevich made their first abstract works. She stipulated that the paintings not be shown publicly until at least twenty years after her death. They were first exhibited in 1986.