Three Free Circles

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Three Free Circles

Germany and France, 1923
Drawings; watercolors
Watercolor and ink on paper
18 5/16 × 16 5/8 in. (46.5 × 42.2 cm)
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof (M.2005.70.42)
Not currently on public view

Provenance

The artist (1866-1944)....
The artist (1866-1944). Stadtmuseum, Dresden, 1926; Confiscated as Entartete Kunst, 1937; [Galerie Ferdinand Möller, by exchange, Jan 1940]; Private Collection; [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne]; sold in 1991 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
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Bibliography

  • Roethel, Hans K. and Jean K. Benjamin.  "Kandinsky, Catalog Raisonné of the Oil Paintings,"  Vol II, 1916-1944, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982-1984.
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.