About This Artwork

Vasily Kandinsky
French, born Russia, 1866-1944

Untitled, 1922

Brush and pen and black ink, watercolor, and gray wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper
328 x 478 mm
Signed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "K / 22"; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: "N 98"; lower center, in graphite: "47422".
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.702

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Wellesley. Mass., Wellesley College Art Museum, "Two Women Collect," April 2–25, 1976.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, January 26–April 27, 1980.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings," June11–September 7, 1999, checklist 21.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 168-169, cat. 120 (ill.).

Publication History

Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky: Watercolors Catalogue Raisonne II (London, 1992), p. 19, no. 562 (ill.).

Ownership History

Ella Winter Stewart, London [Barnett 1992]. Marlborough Fine Art Limited, London [Barnett 1992]. Sold by E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, to Kornfeld and Klipstein, Berne, November 1965 [inventory no. 47422; letter from Christine Stauffer of Galerie Kornfeld of January 8, 2004 in curatorial file]; sold to Robert M. Light, Boston, May 1968 [letter from Christine Stauffer]; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, June 3, 1968 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.