Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
A rider named by colour, not by task
The title identifies the figure by a colour word and gives no occupation, no destination and no ground. The record supplies more than the title does: landscape headings for forest, rural and field, a tree heading, and Animal Art > Horse. Between them they place a mounted figure in open country without saying what the figure is doing there.
What the record holds
The date of creation is 1903 and the location line reads Private Collection. The dimensions are 55 x 65 cm. Expressionism is the recorded style, Russian the recorded nationality. The measured colour family of the image is yellow, which is worth stating plainly beside a title that names something else: the two values come from different places, and this catalogue does not reconcile them.
Riding, unassigned
Most records in this collection can be sorted by what the animal is for. This one cannot, and the honest entry says so. A rider crossing a field might be travelling, hunting, working or none of those. The title does not choose, the tags do not choose, and nothing else in the record is available to break the tie. 6 works by this painter are assembled here.
Sources
8 references- Wassily Kandinsky — Wikipedia
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pi
- Kandinsky, Vassily — Getty ULAN
Russian painter, 1866-1944
- The Blue Rider — Wikidata
description: painting by Wassily Kandinsky (1903); inception: 1903-01-01; dimensions: 55 × 60 cm; collection: Russia
- beckchris.wordpress.com — record for "The Blue Rider"
Primary source record for this work (beckchris.wordpress.com).
- The Blue Rider (Kandinsky) — Wikipedia
The Blue Rider (German: Der Blaue Reiter) is a 1903 oil painting by Wassily Kandinsky. The work depicts a rider in a blue cloak riding on a white horse through a meadow, with a forest in the background. The painting uses bright colors, repe
- doi.org — reference for "The Blue Rider (Kandinsky)"
Authoritative source for this work (doi.org).
- search.worldcat.org — reference for "The Blue Rider (Kandinsky)"
Authoritative source for this work (search.worldcat.org).
- jstor.org — reference for "The Blue Rider (Kandinsky)"
Authoritative source for this work (jstor.org).
