Excerpts from catalog entry, p.345: Öl auf Leinwand; Bez. u.r.: Kandinsky, 1911; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München; Gezeigt auf der Tournee der 2. NKVM-Ausstellung 1910, außer Katalog; Additional cataloging info from Barnett, p.622: 2...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works; Colors; Mental states; Spiritual life; Paradise; End of the world; Prophecy; Biblical events; Animals; Horses; Horseback riding; Riding; Sitting
Excerpts from catalog entry, p.344: Öl auf Leinwand, 97.5 x 131.2 cm; Bez. u.r.: Kandinsky 1910; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Die große Endfassung der Komposition II, 1910, 200 x 275 cm (im Zweiten Weltkrieg zerstört) wurde auf...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
Excerpts from catalog entry, p.336: Öl auf Karton, auf Leinwand aufgezogen, 98 x 70 cm; Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Gezeigt auf der 2. NKVM-Ausstellung 1910, außer Katalog.
"Soon after the creation of Composition VII, in late November, Kandinsky painted Dreamy Improvisation [Träumerische Improvisation] on 3 December 1913 followed by Light Picture [Helles Bild] and Black Lines [Schwarze Striche] in mid-December....
"Hesse produced a series of versions of this sculpture during 1967-8. They set up an interesting dialogue with [Donald] Judd's frequent exposure of the interiors of his 'boxes'. They also respond obliquely to an iconographic tradition of...
"This painting deliberately combines a host of allusions to Spanish culture such as the stark black/white contrasts of Goya, Velasquez, and Picasso, the Spanish poet Lorca's lament to a dead bullfighter, 'Llanto por Ignacio Jánchez mejías',...
"In the year before Pollock's premature death, Krasner made powerful collages, possibly drawing on the huge semi-abstract 'paper-cuts' that the veteran French Modernist Henri Matisse was producing around this time. In one of these collages she...
"Whilst clearly representing a critique of free expression, Lichtenstein's 'brushstrokes', like most of his other Pop works, had an exact comic-book source. They initially derived from a strip entitled 'The Painting' published in Charlton...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
"In Louis's enormous 'veils' of the 1950s the physical operations of pouring paint or tilting a canvas so that the paint floods down it are powerfully implied." (Caption, p.28); "[Clement] Greenberg's conception of 'Modernism' as...
Installation, L'Attico Gallery, Rome. Detail of wall drawing in pencil. Draughtsmen: Climbo, Piccari, Battista, Pranovi. "In the early 1960s LeWitt had largely devoted himself to producing modular open cube structures made from wood. His 'wall...
