
Untitled (First Abstract Watercolor)
1913
Watercolor and Indian ink and pencil on paper
19.5 × 25.5" (49.6 × 64.8 cm)
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou
This work is widely regarded by many art historians as the first purely abstract painting in the history of modern art. Although the work itself bears the date 1910, scholars, comparing its execution with other works from the same year, generally agree that it in fact belongs to 1913.
4 comments
December 03, 2022
markomatic: aerial view of a party i attended on saturnDecember 01, 2020
helen: I LUV THIS PAINTING. it has a free style that looks like wild horses running free. I like the way of this "freedom". November 22, 2017
paige: Um most of this is real, just heights are wrong. (:January 12, 2015
Elvira from Vienna: Size correction: it's 49,6 x 64,8 cm

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