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Painting with Troika

Vibrant colored painting of beachscape with figures, structure, and ox pulled cart.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • Vibrant colored painting of beachscape with figures, structure, and ox pulled cart.

Date:

January 18, 1911

Artist:

Vasily Kandinsky
Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944

About this artwork

Vasily Kandinsky, along with Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter, and Alexei Jawlensky, was a founding member of Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider), a loose alliance of artists based in Munich. Often working in a common palette using expressive brushwork, they shared a belief in the symbolic and spiritual importance of forms and colors, including their effect on emotions and memories. Blaue Reiter also promoted a spontaneous, intuitive approach to painting, looking to non-Western, European medieval, and folk art for inspiration. Here the troika, a traditional carriage drawn by three horses, and the hand-painted frame, which Kandinsky made especially for this work, speak to the powerful influence these sources had on the artist.

Status

On View, Gallery 392

Department

Modern Art

Artist

Vasily Kandinsky

Title

Painting with Troika

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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1911

Medium

Oil on cardboard; in artist's painted frame

Inscriptions

signed, l.l.: "Kandinsky"

Dimensions

69.7 × 97.3 cm (27 3/8 × 38 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1931.509

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