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Follow the three white horses from the blue block at left toward the pink blossoms, then look at the painted frame and the colors it repeats from the picture.
The Art Institute dates this painting to a single day, 18 January 1911, the year the Blue Rider began. A troika, a carriage pulled by a team of three horses, crosses the picture under a sky of bands of color. Kandinsky painted the frame himself, and the museum links both the troika and the frame to the folk and medieval art the group looked to.
Oil on cardboard; in artist's painted frame · 69.7 × 97.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · The Blue Rider
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Painting with Troika
- Artist
- Vasily Kandinsky Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944
- Date
- January 18, 1911
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard; in artist's painted frame
- Dimensions
- 69.7 × 97.3 cm (27 3/8 × 38 5/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.