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Wassily Kandinsky
Standing and falling tower with rider1912

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Print title page with bold all-caps German text and a loose black ink illustration of an abstracted figure seated on a curved arc, with a looping form and small bird

Wassily Kandinsky, Standing and falling tower with rider, 1912, 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
Standing and falling tower with rider
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1912
Medium
Woodcut printed in green on laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 7 1/4 in. (23.5 × 18.42 cm) Image: 4 1/4 × 4 3/4 in. (10.8 × 12.07 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
83.1.103k
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.

  • 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.

Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris