WASSILY KANDINSKY
Moscow 1866–1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine
Descente
Signed with monogram and dated, lower left, K / 41; with the artist’s backing board, stamped, upper left, KANDINSKY, and his inscription with Handlist number, No. 725 / 1941
Gouache and watercolour on paper
495 x 310 mm
Descente is one of Wassily Kandinsky’s very last gouaches. Executed in Paris, in 1941 in a combined technique of gouache and watercolour much favoured by the artist during these years, it presents a collation of colourful abstract forms in a manner that suggests they are either floating or suspended towards the top of the work and, as the picture’s title suggests, then descending across its surface. Such suspended forms exude a strong sense of their deriving from either a mysterious cosmic realm or a strangely microcosmic world and are a typical feature of much of the work that Kandinsky produced during his last years living in Paris between 1933 and his death in 1944.
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