Wassily Kandinsky
Study for "Circles in the Circle"1923

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title: Study for "Circles in the Circle"
Date Made: 1923
Medium: Watercolor and ink on paper
Dimensions: 18 5/16 x 16 3/4 in. (46.5 x 42.5 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.43
Classification: Drawings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Provenance: The artist (1866-1944); The artist's wife, Nina Kandinsky, Paris, until 1972; [Galerie Beyeler, Basel]; [Pace Gallery, New York]; Mark Goodson (1915-1992), New York by 1973; [PaceWildenstein, New York, 1995]; [Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago]; Sold in 1996 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 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.