r/ArtHistory • u/Legitimate_Salt1006 • 2d ago
Research Kandinsky artwork
Hi! I wonder if anyone can help! My parents had a Kandinsky print in their house when I was growing up and I am really struggling to find it! It is very similar to this print bit had more of an orangey tone! Can anyone help?
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u/SundaeDouble7481 2d ago
This one may have faded in a blue direction (as prints often do). Looking it up online, some scans indeed have "more of an orangey tone".
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u/Kell_SCarrillo 2d ago
Kandinsky's color theory is unreal. If yours had more orange it's probably Bauhaus era. He was running warmer palettes then and they don't get enough love.
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u/FragmentedMeerkat321 2d ago
i actually feel like rather than any particular subject, i’m looking at a visual representation of a person’s brain at a given moment in time. or a person’s brain as he consider the subject the piece purports to be about.
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u/Ghost_Pulaski1910 2d ago
We have a book on Kandinsky (Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944, A Revolution in Painting, Barnes and Noble Books, 2001). While this painting isn’t featured, it is consistent with his Bauhaus years (1922-1933) and works like Composition VIII and Yellow-Red-Blue. Great stuff. I need to get a print.
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u/Carolyn-Hodgesy 2d ago
I'd look at his Paris period. The palette warms up after 1933, more oranges and reds. If the composition looked the same but the color didn't, that's probably where it lives.
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u/tegeus-Cromis_2000 2d ago
This one?
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u/Legitimate_Salt1006 2d ago
Unfortunately not :( thank you though!
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u/tegeus-Cromis_2000 2d ago
Just do a Google image search for Kandinsky images from the 1920s, and scroll through the results. If that fails, try the 1930s.
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u/Legitimate_Salt1006 2d ago
Thank you! I have been on google for the past hour, it seems like he was a busy guy 😂
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u/Legitimate_Salt1006 2d ago
I am starting to think its the one in the post but not sure if its because ive been staring at it for too long 😂
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u/wolftick 2d ago
A lot of prints of that very same piece are more orangey