Impression III (Concert)
1911 · Oil on canvas · Lenbachhaus, Munich
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About this work
- Artist
- Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
- Year
- 1911
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 78.4 × 100.6 cm
- Collection
- Lenbachhaus, Munich
- Movement
- Abstract art
A wide field of yellow floods the canvas; at upper right a large black shape tilts into it, and along the left side a crowd of quick strokes in white, blue, red and black suggests rows of listeners. The black form is usually read as a grand piano and the yellow as the sound filling the hall. Kandinsky painted it in January 1911, days after he, Franz Marc and friends heard a concert in Munich of music by Arnold Schoenberg, including works in which the composer had abandoned traditional harmony. Kandinsky wrote to Schoenberg soon afterwards, beginning a long friendship. The picture belongs to his series of Impressions, which he described as pictures that still drew directly on outward nature, here the experience of a performance. It was in Gabriele Münter's collection and came to the Lenbachhaus in Munich with her gift of 1957.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A blaze of yellow with a black piano shape and quick strokes of red, blue and white, for a music room, living room or kitchen at 16×24 in black. A white or pale yellow wall; it pairs with Improvisation 19.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Abstract art painting
- Era
- 20th century (1911)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, kitchen, dining room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. 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. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
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
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
