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While vigorously applying yellow - in Yellow-Red-Blue or The Yellow Canvas, among others - Kandinsky claimed that yellow torments man, it imposes itself on him like a constraint, intruding with a kind of unbearable brutality. Indeed, yellow allows for a myriad of meanings, interpretations, and emotions to co-exist and this unique attribute particularly fascinated first-generation Abstract Expressionists. Radiant yellow in de Kooning’s Yellow Woman abruptly dazzles the eye, accentuating the full brilliance of the work as does bright yellow in Pollock’s Yellow Islands. But, California hills’ …