Wassily Kandinsky
Murnau – Castle and Church
From $80
This painting is about pure colour, and a dull Kandinsky Yellow Red Blue print takes away the only thing it needs. Ours was graded beside the original so the yellow stays sunny, the blue stays deep and the soft violet clouds at the edges keep their glow. The lines stay crisp, and the balance he built is still there.
Canvas, framed or paper
Stretched canvas. Printed on cotton canvas and stretched taut over a frame. The edges are mirror-wrapped, so the picture continues around the sides and none of it is lost to the fold.
Framed canvas. The same canvas, set in a black, white, natural wood or dark wood frame 0.83 in deep. The frame gives the work a finished edge and a little more presence on the wall.
Framed print. Printed on fine art matte paper and framed in solid pine, behind shatterproof plexiglass, in black, white, natural wood or dark wood. It arrives ready to hang. Framed sizes are measured on the outside of the frame.
Fine art print. Printed on 310gsm fine art matte paper, for framing your own way. It travels rolled and protected. From 18x24 inch.
Sizes
18x12 inch, 24x16 inch, 30x20 inch, 36x24 inch. Framed sizes are measured on the outside of the frame, so the visible painting is a little smaller.
On your wall
It brings energy to a modern living room, a home office or a dining room, and it loves white walls. The yellows, blues and violets sit well with black, white and a single strong accent colour, and a black or white frame keeps it graphic.
About the painting
Yellow-Red-Blue by Wassily Kandinsky
Three colours, left to right
Kandinsky painted Yellow-Red-Blue in 1925. Look from left to right and the three colours of the title follow one another: a bright yellow rectangle on the left, red shapes in the middle, a deep blue circle on the right. There are no people and no landscape, only shapes, lines and colour.
A balance of opposites
The left side is made of straight lines, sharp shapes and light colours. The right side is curvy and darker. The museum describes the painting as a balance of opposite but matching parts, like two voices that sound good together. Kandinsky believed colours and shapes could work on us the way music does.
The Bauhaus years
Kandinsky was teaching at the Bauhaus, the famous German art and design school, when he made it, and he wrote a book about points, lines and shapes in the same years. The painting belongs to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It is big, about 128 by 201 centimetres.
Read the story
Wassily Kandinsky believed you could hear a painting. Read this one from left to right.
It's spring 1925 in Weimar, and Kandinsky is fifty-eight.
He teaches at the Bauhaus, a young school of art and design.
Long ago in Moscow, a painting by Monet stopped him. At first he couldn't tell it was a haystack, but the colours stayed with him, and he gave up the law to paint.
Now he teaches colour, asking his students which shape belongs to which colour: yellow a triangle, red a square, blue a circle.
He once wrote that colour is a keyboard, the eye the hammer, and the soul a piano with many strings.
This spring the town stops paying for the school, and it will have to move.
And he paints his biggest picture of these years.
On the left is yellow, in sharp lines like rays of sun. Yellow, he wrote, comes towards you; it's the colour of the earth.
On the right is a deep blue circle. Blue moves away, he said, like a snail into its shell; it's the colour of heaven.
And in the middle is red, which his notes call a mystery, born where yellow and blue pull apart.
Eight years later his school is shut, and he leaves for France.
His wife Nina keeps this painting, and long after he's gone gives it to Paris.
Start with the yellow and let it come to you. Then let the blue carry you away.
Yellow-Red-Blue. Wassily Kandinsky, 1925.
How each piece is brought to life
Faithful to the original, and made to be felt on your wall.
Graded against the original
We compare every work with the original as we grade it, keeping the artist’s colours true while bringing back their depth and glow. Every mark stays the artist’s own.
Printed for you
Printed to order on cotton canvas or fine art paper, then framed if you chose a frame, in 1 to 3 business days.
On your wall
It arrives 5 to 12 business days later, tracked and free anywhere in the US. Framed pieces come ready to hang.
Questions
Is this the original painting?
No. The original hangs in a museum. What you receive is a fine art reproduction, remastered from the original and printed for you, with every mark where the artist left it.
Will the colour look flat?
This is where most reproductions disappoint, and it is where we spend the most time. Each work is graded side by side with the original: faithful to the artist’s colours, with the depth and warmth brought back, so it moves you on the wall the way it was meant to. Canvas reads a touch softer than a backlit screen, and every screen shows colour a little differently.
Will the edges be cropped?
Each size is a standard frame size, so we fit the painting by trimming a little from its edges. We never stretch or squash it, and we check every size by eye so no face, figure or signature is cut. On canvas the edges are mirror-wrapped, which keeps the whole picture on the front.
Which size is right for my wall?
Aim for about two-thirds the width of the furniture beneath it. Over a sofa or a sideboard, one of the two largest sizes will hold the wall. The size guide lists every size in inches and centimetres, with the kind of wall each one suits.
How long does it take?
Your piece is printed in 1–3 business days, then spends 5–12 business days in transit, tracked all the way. Delivery is free anywhere in the US. We are unable to deliver to PO boxes.
What if it arrives damaged?
Send us a photograph and we will remake it and send it again. There is nothing to return.
Can I return it?
Yes, within 30 days of delivery. Our returns policy has the details.
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Printed to order
Graded against the original, then printed for you on cotton canvas or fine art paper in 1–3 business days.
The whole painting
Every mark is the artist’s own, and canvas edges are mirror-wrapped so the whole picture stays on the front.
Free US shipping
On every order, tracked, 5–12 business days in transit.
30-day returns
Returns and exchanges within 30 days of delivery.
