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Meule au soleil

Grainstack in Sunlight

Kunsthaus Zürich

Zurich, Switzerland

About this painting

This cropped, close-up grainstack so struck the young Wassily Kandinsky when he saw it exhibited in Moscow that he later credited the encounter with reshaping his ideas about representation in painting.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

60 × 100 cm (23.6 × 39.4 in)

Painted at

Giverny, France

Current location

Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich

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