About This Artwork

Vasily Kandinsky
French, born Russia, 1866-1944

The Green Line, 1938

Gouache on black wove paper laid down on cream laminated cardboard
244 x 647 mm
Signed lower left, in gouache: "L(?)K'38"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hans von der Marwitz, 1953.337

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Claremont, Calif., Pomona College, 1966.

The Art Institute of Chicago, August 1993-May 1994.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

Publication History

Weltekunst, 24:20 (October 15, 1954), p. 4 (ill.).

Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work (New York, 1958), pp. 347 and 411 (ill.).

Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 250.

Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944 (Ithaca, 1994), p. 432, no. 1226 (ill.).

Ownership History

Mme. Jeanne Bucher, Paris, March 1941 [according to Barnett 1994, Kandinsky himself made this provenance notation in his handlist]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. Hans von der Marwitz, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1953.