Youth (1907) by Hilma af Klint Canvas Print neon sign sage and butter yellow all

sage and butter yellow all sit happily alongside the palette

The painting drops a Gothic skyline and a swathe of summer sky onto the wall

brass lamps and a single bright cushion that echoes the pink

The colour is loud on purpose — flat blue

There's a reason illustrators kept returning to wildflowers and cacti

Youth (1907) by Hilma af Klint Canvas Print neon sign sage and butter yellow allThe oak frame matters first; it tells the living room you're serious. This is Hilma af Klint's Youth (1907), the fourth in her Ten Largest series a warm orange field carrying pink, blue, yellow and cream petals, with looping spirals and floating circles. Put it up and the room shifts. The warm orange lifts a quiet wall, and the soft pinks and blues stop it tipping into shouty. Best above a sofa, a long sideboard, or as the single anchor on a feature