![Wassily Kandinsky - Gedrückt [1929]](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8733/17110500010_23640c4535_o.jpg)
The architectural precision of Kandinsky's Gedrückt exemplifies his time at the Bauhaus in 1929. Composed with ruled lines and compass arcs, he has created an assemblage of precisely-drawn shapes that harmonise with their surrounding negative space. Each delineated semi-circle is surrounded by an aura of exposed board and appears back-lit against the densely painted surface of the support. Kandinsky's focus here is on the transparency and density of the elements of his composition, and how line, colour and void vie for pictorial dominance in this fascinating composition.
[Sold for $1,685,000 at Sotheby’s - Oil, pen and ink on cradled board, 70.2 x 48.8 cm]