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Collections

Wassily Kandinsky
Oriental1911

Not on view
Horizontal woodcut or linocut print with multiple gray tones depicting abstracted, densely crowded figures with bold flat shapes and hard edges
Artist or Maker
Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title
Oriental
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1911
Medium
Woodcut printed in yellow, red, blue on Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
Image: 4 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. (12.38 x 19.05 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 deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.102.15
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Benson, Timothy O., et al. Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993.

  • 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.