11 Tableaux et 7 Poèmes
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A print from the portfolio 11 Tableaux et 7 Poèmes, published in 1945 — a collaboration between Kandinsky's paintings and poems by various authors, printed posthumously. Flat, clean-edged forms float on a cream ground: a teal-green semicircle overlapping a black-ringed magenta circle at the upper left; a curving horn-like shape banded in teal, magenta, peach, and black at the upper right; and a blue biomorphic form with drooping lobes at the bottom, topped by a small teal sphere, a magenta triangle, and a blue dot. Three small squares sit at the bottom center. The palette is specific and deliberate: magenta, teal, peach, blue-lavender, and black. This is late Kandinsky, the Paris period, after he left the Bauhaus in 1933 and settled in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The geometric rigidity of his Bauhaus compositions gave way to these softer, biomorphic forms, influenced by Joan Miró and by his ongoing interest in biological imagery.