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Kandinsky painted this canvas in 1913, the same year as Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons). Both belong to the Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection, named for the Chicago collector who was Kandinsky’s friend. That title names cannons, but this one names no object at all, only the green form near the center.
Oil on canvas · 108.9 × 118.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Abstract art
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- Museum title
- Painting with Green Center
- Artist
- Vasily Kandinsky
- Date
- 1913
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 108.9 × 118.4 cm (43 1/4 × 47 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1866–1944
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.