Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) - Tensione delicata

Beautiful lithograph from an original 1923 work by Kandinsky, printed in 1980 by the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, in perfect condition.

“Sweet tension”
Printed signature of Wassily Kandinsky.

Work size: 35x25 cm.

© Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

Sweet tension was made by Kandinsky at the Bauhaus during the most rationalist period of the prestigious school, under the direction of Theo van Doesburg, from 1923 to 1925.

During these years the initial expressionistic style of this avant-garde centre evolved towards a greater commitment to the constructivist aesthetics that was spreading internationally.

Kandinsky deepened his investigation of the correspondences between shapes and colours, and the geometric shapes found in his works of this period are basically the circle and triangle, which he considered "the two primary plane figures, more strongly contrasting. "


Like Edgar Degas, Egon Schiele, Piet Mondrian, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, René Magritte, Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Paul Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse, Rembrandt, Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Constantin Brancusi, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Vassily Kandinsky was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.