Little Painting with Yellow (Improvisation)
1914 · Oil on canvas · Philadelphia Museum of Art
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About this work
- Artist
- Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
- Year
- 1914
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 78.7 × 100.3 cm
- Collection
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Movement
- Abstract art
A wide band of creamy yellow curls through the canvas like a breaking wave, edged with green, white and pink and crossed by thin black lines; around it sit a dark green arc, red patches, a fringed golden disc at upper right and small spiky bursts of red and black. There is no single focus, and the eye moves round the composition in loops. Kandinsky painted it in Munich in 1914, the last year of his Blue Rider period, and the subtitle Improvisation places it among the pictures he described as spontaneous expressions of inner feeling. Its modest size and light, open colour set it apart from the crowded Compositions of 1913. It belonged to the collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg and is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Creamy yellow looping through green, pink and red with fine black lines, for a kitchen, breakfast room or living room at 16×24 in natural wood. A white, butter-yellow or sage wall; it pairs with Painting on Light Ground.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Abstract art painting
- Era
- 20th century (1914)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- butter yellow, 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
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
