The Green Line

Prints and Drawings

1938

Vasily Kandinsky
French, born Russia, 1866-1944

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Vasily Kandinsky
Title: The Green Line
Place: Germany (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.: 1938
Medium: Gouache on black wove paper laid down on cream laminated cardboard
Inscriptions: Signed lower left, in gouache: "L(?)K'38"
Dimensions: 24.4 × 64.7 cm (9 5/8 × 25 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hans von der Marwitz
Reference Number: 1953.337
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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.).

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.

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.

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