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 exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. 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 24×36 in natural wood. A cream or pale yellow wall; it pairs with Riding Couple.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1911)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, kids room, dining room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- 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. 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.
