A knight on a white horse, both covered in gold and grey costumes, are seen against a starry dark blue night sky containing a white glowing moon.
Details
ARCHES rough watercolour paper, watermark on bottom right corner.
There's been some speculation that the artist changed the gender of the rider from female to male as indicated from the only known artist's study of this painting.
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Odessa Art School. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics.
