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Rarely does a painter of such striking talent and originality choose to keep her most imaginative artworks out of public view, and even stipulate in her will that her paintings should remain private until twenty years after her death. Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), an artist whose abstract paintings predate those of Vasily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and Kazimir Malevich, worked outside of the public spotlight with a group of

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