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Wassily Kandinsky
Yellow Border1930

Not on view
Abstract painting with rust-brown textured ground, network of black lines forming a grid-like structure, stacked cream triangles at center, and scattered small color rectangles throughout
Artist or Maker
Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title
Yellow Border
Place Made
Germany and France
Date Made
1930
Medium
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
19 5/16 x 19 5/16 in. (49 x 49 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.48
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1866-1944); [Nierendorf Gallery, New York]; the artist’s wife, Nina Kandinsky (1899-1980), Paris; Margit Chanin (1926-2001), New York. [Christie's London, 24 June 1966, lot no. 23]; Private Collection. [Sold February 1995 to Acquavella Gallery, New York]; sold in March 1995 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Roethel, Hans K., and Benjamin, Jean K. Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982.
  • Roethel, Hans K., and Benjamin, Jean K. Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982.