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Wassily Kandinsky
Sign1925

Not on view
Abstract vertical painting with bands of red, orange, and yellow; black gestural cross-strokes at top; red circle, blue circle, striped column, and black rectangle below

Wassily Kandinsky, Sign, 1925, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum acquisition by exchange from the David E. Bright Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title
Sign
Place Made
Russia
Date Made
1925
Medium
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
27 1/8 x 19 5/16 in. (68.8975 x 49 cm)
Credit Line
Museum acquisition by exchange from the David E. Bright Bequest
Accession Number
M.86.101
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1866-1944); his wife Nina Kandinsky (1899-1980) until at least 1965; [Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, Milan]. [Galerie Maeght, Paris]. Heinz Berggruen (1914-2007), Paris; [Christies, London, sale March 29, 1977, lot no. 48]; [Stephen Hahn, New York]; sold in 1986 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Tuchman, Maurice; R. Welsh; C. Blotkamp; C. Eldredge; S. Ringbom; Å. Fant; J. Bowlt; C. Douglas; R. Long; L. Henderson; H. Watts; J. Moffitt; W. Rushing; W. Moritz; D. Kuspit; G. Imanse; E. Kasinec; B. Kerdimun; R. Galbreath; Judi Freeman. The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985. New York: Abbeville Press, 1986.
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • Kandinsky: Pequeños Mundos. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2018.
  • 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.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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