Untitled

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

September 1, 1916

Vasily Kandinsky
French, born Russia, 1866-1944

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Vasily Kandinsky
Title: Untitled
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1916
Medium: Pen and brush and black ink, gray wash, with touches of graphite, on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right in Russian (trans. by Janna Kasumova): "purple with … / green background / 5 … … …/ 11 x 16 … / … … / around"
Dimensions: 25.3 × 34.2 cm (10 × 13 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.701
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Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonné I (London, 1992), p. 400, no. 456 (ill.).

New York, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, 1963, cat. 216.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, April 1965.
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,” June 11– September 7, 1999, checklist 22.

Sold by Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, February 21, 1964 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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