Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) — Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky

Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)

1913

Dating
Exact year
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 140.7 x 119.7 cm (55 3/8 x 47 1/8 in.)
Collection no.
1978.48.1
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
Public domainLicense details

Wassily Kandinsky. Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle). Image credit: Wassily Kandinsky; Source credit: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.56670.html. Public domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

Official collection metadata; attribution follows named catalogue, not an independent authenticity determination. Holdings are not ownership or current display. Museum accessioned painting; no museum-highlight designation or current-display claim. Source Wikidata creator identity matched exactly. Dataset textual dates checked against numeric search dates. Full provenance, inscriptions, terms and catalogue text preserved in the separate research staging record. Attribution: primary Collection credit: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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