Abstract painting in various bright colors—yellow, blue, red, green, orange, pink—with lines indicating building-like structures as well as canons in the lower right corner.

Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons)

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)

Date: 1913
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 43¾ × 43¾ in (111 × 111.3 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1931.511. See the museum’s record
Credit: Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0).

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Hang it

Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 24 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 0.3 % of the picture)
Center: 67¼ in (171 cm) from the floor
Above the mantel: 6 in (15 cm) from the mantel to the frame
Ideal width: 44 to 50 in over a 66 in mantel
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 4 to 8 in above the mantel, so the 6 in gap sets the height.

24 × 24 in square print (61 × 61 cm), centered 67¼ in from the floor, 6 in above the mantel. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

Standard paper sizes that keep this painting’s proportions, the frames that fit them, and how sharp each one prints.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
12 × 12 in	trims 0.3 %	12 × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	165 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 16 in	trims 0.3 %	16 × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	124 dpi, soft up close
20 × 20 in	trims 0.3 %	20 × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	99 dpi, soft up close
24 × 24 in	trims 0.3 %	24 × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	82 dpi, soft up close

Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 557 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 847 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 1,991 × 2,000 px from Art Institute of Chicago
The museum’s record of this painting Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.