1923

Showing 2 artworks from 1923

Abstract painting · Abstract

Composition VIII

Wassily Kandinsky

1923 · Guggenheim, New York City

Circles, triangles and floating lines arranged with the precision of a score. Kandinsky painted it while teaching at the Bauhaus, his storms over.

★ 7.2

Portrait · New objectivity

Self-Portrait with a Cigarette

Max Beckmann

1923 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Beckmann had spent the war as a medical orderly, and he looks out of the shadows here like a man finished being surprised.

★ 5.6