- Did not think her contemporaries were ready for her representations of the metaphysical, so af Klint requested her work not be exhibited until 20 years after her death
- Work remained unseen until 1986
- First major solo exhibition of af Klint in the US was in 2018 at the Guggenheim
- Af Klint’s abstract work of precedes Kandinsky and Mondrian making her the mother of western abstraction