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Wassily Kandinsky
Study for "Circles in the Circle"1923

Not on view
Abstract watercolor and ink painting with a large black circle enclosing overlapping translucent colored discs and radiating thin lines, on a cream ground with diagonal pastel bands
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.