WASSILY KANDINSKY

Orange (R. 180)

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WASSILY KANDINSKY
Orange (R. 180)
lithograph in colors, 1923, on smooth wove paper, signed in pencil, apart from the numbered edition of 50, published by the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar, the colors slightly attenuated, with wide margins, pale time staining, the top right corner reattached, a 1/8-inch tear at the bottom margin edge, otherwise in good condition
L. 16 x 15¼ in. (405 x 387 mm.)

Lot Essay

Kandinsky began experimenting with color lithography upon joining the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1922. In 1923, he produced Orange, his largest and last exploration of the medium. Orange records Kandinsky's movement away from Expressionism's extraction of natural forms and a shift towards the formal and structural geometric language that characterized his later work.

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