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Collections

Wassily Kandinsky
Two riders against Red Background (Zwei Reiter vor Rot)1911

Not on view
Horizontal woodcut or linocut print with bold black outlines depicting spotted animals, bare branches, and human figures against a gray and white ground
Artist or Maker
Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title
Two riders against Red Background (Zwei Reiter vor Rot)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1911
Medium
Woodcut printed in yellow, red, blue, and black on Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
Image: 4 1/8 x 6 3/16 in. (10.5 x 15.7 cm); Sheet: 12 5/16 x 8 15/16 in. (31.3 x 22.2 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 deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.102.1
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
  • Roethel, Hans Konrad. Kandinsky: das graphische Werk. Köln: M. Dumont Schauberg, 1970.

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.