Wassily Kandinsky

Composition IX

US$ 636.00

Four diagonal bands of violet, green, orange and blue slice the canvas edge to edge, with biological, almost cellular forms drifting across them. Kandinsky painted it in Paris after the Nazis closed the Bauhaus and forced him into exile, and the shapes owe more to microscope slides and embryology plates than to anything geometric. It is one of the last of his numbered Compositions, the series he reserved for his most deliberate statements.

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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) trained as a lawyer in Moscow before turning to painting at thirty, and is widely credited with producing the first purely abstract works in Western art. He taught at the Bauhaus until the Nazis shut it down in 1933, then spent his final decade in Paris. He wrote extensively on the spiritual dimension of colour and form, believing painting could work on the viewer the way music does.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 54 × 31 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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