Accent in Pink
1926 · Oil on canvas · Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
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About this work
- Artist
- Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
- Year
- 1926
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 100.5 × 80.5 cm
- Collection
- Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
- Movement
- Abstract art
Against a dark blue-black ground, a tilted cream-yellow square fills most of the canvas, and on and around it float circles: a large pink disc with a soft red halo at upper right, dark green and black discs, smaller dots of red, yellow, blue and violet, and a grey square at the centre packed with its own black and white circles. The halos make the discs seem to glow against the night-coloured ground. Kandinsky painted it in Dessau in 1926, the year he published Point and Line to Plane, his Bauhaus treatise on the basic elements of painting. It is one of a run of mid-1920s canvases built from circles floating in space, often read as cosmic or planetary. Nina Kandinsky gave the painting to the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1976, and it is in the collection of the Centre Pompidou.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Glowing pink, green and black circles floating on a pale square against a night-blue ground, for a bedroom, living room or child's room at 24×36 in natural wood. A navy, deep grey or blush wall; it pairs with Contrasting Sounds.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Abstract art painting
- Era
- 20th century (1926)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- blush pink
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, kids room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — natural wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.



























