Wassily Kandinsky
Melodious1924

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title: Melodious
Place Made: Germany and France
Date Made: 1924
Medium: Watercolor and ink on paper
Dimensions: 12 5/8 x 9 1/16 in. (32 x 23 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.45
Classification: Drawings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Provenance: The artist (1866-1944). Galka Scheyer, Los Angeles, 1928-1945; Nina Kandinsky, Paris, until 1971; [Galerie Berggruen, Paris, 1971]; [Gallerie Galatea, Turin, 1974]; [Galerie Beyeler, Basel]; sold to 1997 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Barnett, V. E. Kandinsky Watercolors: Catalogue Raisonné Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Roethel, Hans Konrad. Kandinsky: das graphische Werk. Köln: M. Dumont Schauberg, 1970.
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.