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Wassily Kandinsky
Lyrical1911

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Color woodcut landscape with bold black lines over flat areas of white, gold, cobalt blue, and maroon, depicting a snow-covered scene with a dark building and zigzag yellow form

Wassily Kandinsky, Lyrical, 1911, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title
Lyrical
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1911
Medium
Woodcut printed in yellow, red, blue and black on Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
Image: 5 11/16 x 8 1/2 in. (14.45 x 21.59 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
83.1.102.5
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.

  • Barron, Stephanie et al. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.

  • 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.

  • Benson, Timothy O. and Andrea Gyorody. A New Generation of Creators: Selections from The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017.
  • Kandinsky: Pequeños Mundos. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2018.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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