Vasili Kandinsky - Leise Deutung, litho - Verkocht

Zeer mooie, bekende compositie van Wassily Kandinsky.  Litho op Arches papier naar het originele werk uit 1929, met potlood genummerd (XLIV/LXXV = 44/75) en in de plaat gemonogrammeerd en gedateerd.  Het desbetreffende Arches watermerk werd gebruikt in de jaren 50 en 60, ik weet niet in welke context deze litho is uitgegeven maar hij is zeker authentiek.  In zeer goede conditie.

Afmetingen: 64cm x 36cm (blad), 53cm x 34cm (beeld)

Bij aankoop moet het werk bij voorkeur worden opgehaald in Diemen (vlakbij het kantoor van Kunstveiling in Amsterdam Z-O), maar het kan eventueel goed verpakt en aangetekend verzonden worden op kosten van de koper.

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Kandinsky painted this vibrant, dramatic composition in 1929 while teaching at the new Bauhaus, which had relocated to Dessau in 1925. The roster of teachers included Josef Albers, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, László Moholy-Nagy and Oskar Schlemmer, under the directorship of Walter Gropius. The Bauhaus emphasis on architecture and technological design encouraged him to experiment more broadly with geometric imagery and the linear structuring of space.

The symbiotic relationship between art and music is also central to Kandinsky's work and is clearly reflected in Leise Deutung. In his seminal treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Kandinsky declared that "The power of profound meaning is found in blue.... In music a light blue is like a flute, a darker blue a cello; a still darker a thunderous double bass; and the darkest blue of all--an organ". In the present picture, the dark blue indeed compares to the deeply resonant notes of a double bass--a concrete example of Kandinsky's color theory.

Kandinsky also investigates in Leise Deutung the pictorial relationships between points, various lines and angles, repeated forms and the placement of horizontal and vertical elements. The creation of lines from points, and planes from lines suggested energy, rhythm and movement to the artist, seen here in the juxtaposition of two dimensional form against the slanting planes of color. It is through this revolutionary exploration of geometry and color that the artist succeeded in creating his own language of painting.