Swedish artist Hilma af Klint made note of a vision

foretelling of ten paradisiacally large paintings

that would tell the story of the stages of human life:

childhood,

youth,

adulthood

and old age.

These paintings measure almost three-and-a-half-metres high.

This was a scale that was almost unprecedented

in European art of the time.

'The ten largest' are perhaps the most wondrous

of all the paintings that Hilma af Klint produced.

They were the fourth series that she made

as part of an overarching body of work

called 'The paintings for the temple',

which she'd begun a year earlier in 1906

and would be her focus up until 1915.