{"product_id":"wassily-kandinsky-improvisation-35-1914-giclee-print","title":"Wassily Kandinsky – Improvisation 35, 1914 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo horizon, no figure, no centre: red, yellow, deep blue and a dark bottle-green burst across the canvas, crossed by fine black lines that seem drawn at speed. Kandinsky painted it in Munich in May 1914, and it is the last of his numbered Improvisations – the series of pictures he made between 1909 and 1914 and named, like music, for how they were made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe had defined the term himself in \u003cem\u003eOn the Spiritual in Art\u003c\/em\u003e (1911): an Improvisation is a largely unconscious, spontaneous expression of an inner state. Three months after this one he left Germany for Switzerland at the outbreak of war. The canvas later passed into a public collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks from the museum's own photograph of the painting. It is not a painting and is not sold as one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOriginal: 120.3 × 110.3 cm — oil on canvas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e50 × 50 cm \/ 19.7 × 19.7 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — reduced, 0.35× original. Image 42.00 × 38.21 cm.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e70 × 70 cm \/ 27.6 × 27.6 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — reduced, 0.43× original. Image 51.41 × 46.76 cm.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy this size.\u003c\/strong\u003e The canvas is 120 cm wide. The museum's photograph holds enough detail for 51.41 cm of image at 300 dpi, the floor we print to, so the large sheet reproduces it pixel for pixel at a little over two fifths of the painting's width, and the small sheet at about a third. On the large sheet that leaves wide white margins, 9.3 cm at the sides. We do not enlarge files artificially: an upscaled file adds detail Kandinsky never painted. A larger sheet would need a larger photograph, and when one exists we will print it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre, with a small Museartis wordmark in the lower left margin. The colour of the museum's file is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944), \u003cem\u003eImprovisation 35\u003c\/em\u003e, 1914, oil on canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere this comes from\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/sheet-record-kandinsky-improvisation-35\"\u003ethe record for this sheet\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/notes\/why-this-print-is-not-bigger\"\u003eWhy This Print Is Not Bigger\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"50 × 50 cm \/ 19.7 × 19.7 in — Reduced, 0.35× original","offer_id":66115411738973,"sku":"b32e40f3-c2da-4f48-a50b-5cd435f580e6","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"70 × 70 cm \/ 27.6 × 27.6 in — Reduced, 0.43× original","offer_id":66115411771741,"sku":"b1e6a9b1-2418-4406-a247-14e0018df8f4","price":109.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-MUS-103-plate.jpg?v=1791056971","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/wassily-kandinsky-improvisation-35-1914-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}