Wassily Kandinsky · 1923
On White II
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Kandinsky's Bauhaus-era geometric breakthrough — black triangle pressed against white, the moment a single colour becomes architecture. Centre Pompidou's most-quoted Kandinsky.
Up to 15 × 16 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of On White II
Auf Weiss II (Sur blanc II), in English: On White II, is a 1923 oil-on-canvas painting by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. It was created when the artist was a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar. The painting initially hung in the dining room of Wassily and Nina Kandinsky's apartment at Bauhaus Dessau. Since 1976, as a gift from Nina Kandinsky, it has been in the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, in Paris.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Born in Moscow, he began painting studies at the age of 30.
All Wassily Kandinsky prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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