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Wassily Kandinsky
Woodcut for the Almanac "The Blue Rider" (Holzschnitt für den Almanach "Der blaue Reiter")1914

Not on view
Woodcut-style book cover in black, cobalt blue, and burnt orange on cream cloth, showing a rider on horseback with bold sans-serif text reading 'Der Blaue Reiter'
Artist or Maker
Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title
Woodcut for the Almanac "The Blue Rider" (Holzschnitt für den Almanach "Der blaue Reiter")
Place Made
Germany, Munich
Date Made
1914
Medium
Woodcut (electrotype) printed in red, blue and black on linen wrapped board
Dimensions
Image: 11 x 8 5/16 in. (27.94 x 21.11 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
83.1.105a
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.

  • Kandinsky: Pequeños Mundos. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2018.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris