Wassily Kandinsky "Motif aus Improvisation 25: The Garden of Love" original woodcut
Artist: Wassily Kandinsky
Price:
$515.00
Medium: Prints
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Creation Date: 1938
Materials: Original Woodcut
Dimensions: 9" x 9" x 1"
Condition: Condition: there are pinholes with discoloration along the left edge of the sheet -- this is from the publisher's original binding staples, and also demonstrates the provenance of this work.
Finish: Unframed
About the Item: Medium: original woodcut. Catalogue reference Roethel 105. Printed in Paris in 1938 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue number 3). Image size: 8 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (217 x 220 mm). Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (317 x 245 mm). Signed in the plate (not hand-signed).
Condition: there are pinholes with discoloration along the left edge of the sheet -- this is from the publisher's original binding staples, and also demonstrates the provenance of this work.
Condition: there are pinholes with discoloration along the left edge of the sheet -- this is from the publisher's original binding staples, and also demonstrates the provenance of this work.
About The Artist
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—he began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896 Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Kandinsky was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Communist Moscow, and returned to Germany in 1921. There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.
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