Artist: André Lanskoy (Russian, 1902–1976)
Title: Blue Composition
Medium: Original Lithograph, Signed, Edition of 150, 1965
Dimensions: 25.75 x 19.75 in, 65.4 x 50.2 cm

A major theme running through Lanskoy's work is the interaction of form and color. He breaks the subject to make it disappear in large solid colors and light refractions. His lyrical and dynamic abstract compositions were a revelation in a climate dominated by cold geometric abstraction, and although he refused to be categorized, he was an important forerunner of Tachism. 

Tachism, derived from the French word tache (stain) is a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s. The term is said to have been first used with regards to the movement in 1951. It is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism.

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