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Wassily Kandinsky
Motif from Improvisation 251911

Not on view
Square woodcut print in black and white showing two large open-mouthed animal heads confronting each other above a tangle of claws and smaller creatures, with hard-edged forms and no tonal gradation
Opened book spread with two woodcut prints in black and white. Left page features a small rectangular print with abstracted figures and German text below. Right page displays a large, bold woodcut of a distorted skull-like form with jagged, expressive lines filling most of the page.
Artist or Maker
Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title
Motif from Improvisation 25
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1911
Medium
Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
Image: 8 9/16 x 8 5/8 in. (21.75 x 21.91 cm); Sheet: 11 x 11 in. (27.94 x 27.94 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deacession funds
Accession Number
83.1.102.13
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Roethel, Hans Konrad. Kandinsky: das graphische Werk. Köln: M. Dumont Schauberg, 1970.