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Wassily Kandinsky
Wave1932

Not on view
Horizontal drawing in ink and wash on cream paper, with four isolated elements: a brick-like grid in burnt orange, a fan of diagonal architectural lines in gray and salmon, a serpentine brown line, and a small outlined hat form
Artist or Maker
Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title
Wave
Date Made
1932
Medium
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Dimensions
12 5/8 × 19 11/16 in. (32 × 50 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.49
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1866-1944). Galka Scheyer, Los Angeles, 1933–1945; Nina Kandinsky, Paris, late 1940s; [Galerie Maeght, Paris, Nov. 1974]; Fondation Maeght, Paris; [Sold at Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, London, 27 June 1984, lot 357]; [Saidenberg Gallery, New York]; sold in 1984 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.
  • 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.