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1st Art Gallery offers the option to receive your painting ready to hang or rolled in a tube.
Currently, for safety, we're able to ship framed paintings only up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached, the framing option is automatically disabled.
However, if you are interested in stretching or framing a painting larger than 24x36 inches (60x90 cm), please contact one of our customer success associates or let us know in your order notes. We will send you a catalog of our large framing styles and pricing options.
Unframed rolled canvas orders will arrive rolled inside a protective tube with an extra 1.5" white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it locally.


Painted in 1906, Couple Riding is an early painting from Kandinsky’s career, but already shows the strong Expressionist characteristics and his movement towards abstraction. This painting still has characters and narrative, but the vivid colors and bright spots of light are put together to create the representation of two people horseback riding. The way this piece was created evokes a colorful glow as if we were looking through a mosaic or small pieces of colored glass.
The couple in the scene is riding a horse by the side of a river. The horse is covered with a decorated cape, and all of his gear is beautifully composed of several colors and details. The couple rides together and is embracing, showing a caring, calm, candid scene. Golden leaves are placed on loose white tree branches and dangle over their heads. The side of the river they are riding is darkened as if the light was fading from the day, but the leaves are represented in bright yellow, as well as their headgear, clothes and the horse. On the horizon, the sky is bright blue but gets darker and darker as it goes up. These colors combined with the dark spots and the leaves, makes it look like we are watching the end of the afternoon of an autumn evening.
The river divides the scene, and behind it, it’s possible to see a big lightened up city. The city is so busy its lights are reflected on the river. The architecture of the domes and towers suggest that the painting is placed in Moscow. The domes are portrayed in a varied palette of blue, yellow and green. The river that cuts the city in the middle is dark blue, but several colored spots of light brighten it up. Behind the horizon, on the right-hand side of the painting, there are yellow and orange spots of color representing more trees. The ground where the horse passes, there are leaves and red petals making the scene have an even more romantic and candid impression. The horse is portrayed in a very desaturated shade between yellow and green, and it is trouting majestically through the trees with its front leg lifted. Its long hair and tail are painted blue, almost grey, and both are long to the point that the tail shows underneath the colorful cape.
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Important Notes About Your Painting:
If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Couple Riding, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Couple Riding that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
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