Composition IX – (Wassily Kandinsky) Previous Next


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Style: Abstract Art

Topic: Composition

Date: 1936

Size: 113 x 195 cm

Museum: Musée National d'Art Moderne (Paris, France)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

It was another ten years before Kandinsky completed another canvas that he would call a Composition. Composition IX reflects Kandinsky's exposure in Paris to Surrealist imagery. Although he denied any Surrealist influence in his work, the biomorphic shapes distinctly recall the pictorial language of Miro in particular. There is only one preparatory drawing for Composition IX and none for Composition X.

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