One of several wall hangings commissioned for the Los Angeles ARCO offices. Immediately apparent is the influence of his Bauhaus mentor Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944). Bayer was inspired by Kandinsky well before his Bauhaus days—his treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911) informed Bayer's ideas about color, in particular. Executed by the American carpet manufacturer V'Soske in 9 vivid colors of tufted wool, Chromatic Circles is in keeping with Bayer's post-1966 paintings, which abandoned a monochromatic palette in favor of investigations of color. Here, celestial spheres (reflecting Bayer's fascination with mathematics and cosmic proportions) hover in a field of sky blue—a color so personal it is often called "Bayer blue" by scholars. At center is the largest orb of intense, deep violet, overlapped by 4 circles of different sizes and hues. An effect of color transparencies occurs when the orbiting spheres intersect with the purple... (http://coraginsburg.com/herbert-bayer.html)