Otto Freundlich — Composition (c. 1932) | Blue & Yellow Abstract Composition Fine Art Print

A field of gold-orange fills the upper right, a pale-yellow fan curves down from it, and a wedge of red and rust opens at the lower left — all set inside sweeping planes of cobalt and ultramarine. Around 1932 Freundlich simplified his mosaics into fewer, larger shapes; this composition is one of the boldest, its blue-and-yellow contrast carrying across a room. A natural companion to Komposition (1930).

Otto Freundlich (1878–1943) was one of the first European painters to commit fully to abstraction. Born in Pomerania, he settled in Paris in 1908 among the artists of the Bateau-Lavoir, worked on the restoration of the stained glass at Chartres Cathedral, and went on to build his mature paintings from interlocking fields of colour laid down like mosaic tesserae, later co-founding the Abstraction-Création group. In 1937 the Nazi regime singled out his work as 'degenerate', and he did not survive the war. His paintings were gathered by his companion Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss and donated to the Musée de Pontoise, and they have been steadily rediscovered ever since as a cornerstone of early abstraction.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.