In the manner of Wassily Kandinsky
Russian, 1866–1944
Composition: Held Call, 2026
Oil on canvas
150 × 200 cm
Never painted.
Commissioned for the collection, 2026.
PAB 2026.15.3
One thin horizontal line crosses the grey ground from edge to edge, strung with small coloured dots at even intervals, while a red sun, a blue moon and a few wedges and arcs drift around it without touching it. It is the line you hear while you wait. Kandinsky gave his paintings the names of music. This one is a single held note, with the hold music orbiting it.
The brief
An abstract composition of a single long thin horizontal line across a pale grey ground with small evenly spaced circles in muted colours. Early twentieth-century abstract oil painting, floating circles, wedges, arcs and thin black lines in a dynamic composition, primary reds, yellows and blues against pale grounds, geometric forms in tension with free painterly marks, musical rhythm and movement, matte oil surface. Museum photograph of the oil painting, flat even lighting, no frame, no text, no wall, no floor, cropped to the canvas edge.
Written to the house rules. The painter's name does not appear.
Take it home
The painting on this room's wall, at its own proportions, nothing written on it.
