Wassily Kandinsky
Three Free Circles1923

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title: Three Free Circles
Place Made: Germany and France
Date Made: 1923
Medium: Watercolor and ink on paper
Dimensions: 18 5/16 × 16 5/8 in. (46.5 × 42.2 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.42
Classification: Drawings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Provenance: The artist (1866-1944). Stadtmuseum, Dresden, 1926; Confiscated as Entartete Kunst, 1937; [Galerie Ferdinand Möller, by exchange, Jan 1940]; Private Collection; [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne]; sold in 1991 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: 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.