Geometric Composition, c. 1925 by Wassily Kandinsky

Geometric Composition, by Wassily Kandinsky assembles interlocking triangles, circles, checkerboard squares, and striped bars across a muted, atmospheric gray ground, balancing sharp linear structure against soft tonal washes. Painted in 1925 during Kandinsky's years teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, it reflects the precise geometric vocabulary the Russian-born painter (1866-1944) developed as his work shifted from the freer, gestural abstraction of his Munich period toward the elemental forms he explored in his treatise Point and Line to Plane.

Artist: Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944). Date: 1925.

Geometric Composition. Bauhaus Geometric Abstraction Oil Painting Reproduction Canvas Print.