Painting with Troika
1911 · Oil on cardboard, in the artist's painted frame · The Art Institute of Chicago
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About this work
- Artist
- Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
- Year
- 1911
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard, in the artist's painted frame
- Original size
- 69.7 × 97.3 cm
- Collection
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Expressionism
At upper left a blue mountain topped with a walled town rises above a three-horse sledge, the Russian troika, racing across the picture, while to the right a green hill holds figures outlined in black beside trees in pink blossom; beneath, waves of blue, white and red roll across the bottom. Bands of pink and orange arc like rainbows through a yellow sky. Kandinsky dated the work 18 January 1911 and painted it on cardboard, adding a frame he painted himself. The troika, a motif from Russian folk imagery, recurs in his pictures of 1911 to 1913, where it is gradually reduced to the black arch of Picture with a Black Arch. The Chicago collector Arthur Jerome Eddy owned the painting by 1920, and his widow and son gave it to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1931.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A troika racing under a yellow sky streaked with pink and orange, past a blue mountain and rolling blue waves, for a child's room, playroom or living room at 32×24 in natural wood. A cream or pale yellow wall; it pairs with Riding Couple.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1911)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, kids room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 32×24. Prints at 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard; 32×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing.
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.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
