Eau Forte
Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine 1944)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1932
Materials
Ink on paper glazed in a wooden frame
Measurements
260 mm (Height); 292 mm (L); 400 mm (Height); 420 mm (L)
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Dudmaston, Shropshire
NT 813618
Caption
This print is uplifting and full of joy. Rockets and pylons, stardust and diagrams, it captures the excitement about how science was changing lives in the 20th century.
Summary
Print, etching, Eau Forte by Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow 1866 – Paris 1944). A typical geometrical design from one of the finest abstractionists, Russian by birth. Kandinsky was one of the first and greatest pioneers of ‘pure’ abstract painting. He developed an elaborate, formal language of abstract signs. This geometric design has all the order and draughtsmanship of a technical drawing. The precise forms, lines, shapes and dots are employed for their own sake but also with psychological significance. Kandinsky stated that his works are pictures of emotional or spiritual states. His work was based on a new spiritual culture rooted in the naïve soul, children’s drawings and old German woodcuts. It can be seen as an inner mystical construction of the world.
Provenance
Sir George Labouchere collection.
Marks and inscriptions
32 (label pasted on reverse)
Makers and roles
Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine 1944), artist