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Kleine Welten Vii

Wassily Kandinsky

Christopher-Clark Fine Art United States

Artwork details

Artist

Wassily Kandinsky

Title

Kleine Welten Vii

Description

Original woodcut printed in three colors (yellow, blue, black) on wove paper.

Hand-signed in pencil in the margin lower right Kandinsky, also signed in the block with the artist's monogram (the letter “K” in an angle) lower left.

A superb impression of the definitive state, from the edition of 200 on this paper. One of twelve plates (four lithographs, four woodcuts, four drypoints) published in the portfolio Kleine Welten by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin; printed at the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar, under the supervision of the artist.

Date

1922

Medium

Woodcut

Edition

200

Signature

Signed

Catalogue Raisonne

Roethel 170

Image

10-5/8 x 9-1/8 inches

Sheet

14-1/8 x 11-1/8 inches

Status

Sold

The Artist

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky is credited as having painted one of the first recognised purely abstract pieces of art. He turned to abstract work after an extended period of development and intense thought based on his artistic experiences. He was totally devoted to an idea of inner beauty as a central focus of his art. Kandinsky was born in Moscow and grew up in Odessa, where he studied at Grekov Odessa Art school.