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Currently not on display

Wassily Kandinsky

Moscow, 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944

<Small Worlds>: IV

Date 1922
Materials and Techniques etching
Size(cm) 34.0 x 29.0 (paper)
Inscriptions Signed in pencil, lower right margin: Kandinsky; Monogram, lower left: K
Standard ref. Roethel 167(Kleine Welten IV)
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1964-0012

Provenance

Purchased, 1965.

Exhibition History

1963
Chiisana Sekaitachi Ten, Nantenshi Gallery, 28 January 1963 - 9 February 1963
2018
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition] The Galerie Maeght and 20th Century Painters: Featuring Derrière le miroir, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Prints and Drawings Gallery, 24 February 2018 - 27 May 2018, cat. no. 17
2022
In Dialogue with Nature - from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 June 2022 - 11 September 2022, cat. no. 73-4

Bibliography

1963
Takashina, Shuji. Kandinsky no Chiisana-Sekai. no. 160, March, 1963, pp. 36-44. (in Japanese)
1967
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 1, 1967, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions. pp. 14-15, no. P-335-10. repr.
1985
Kandinsky: œuvres de Vassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944 (exh. cat.). Derouet, Christian; Boissel, Jessica, eds. Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, 1984, no. 271.
2022
In Dialogue with Nature: from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi; Shinfuji, Atsushi; Yomiuri Shimbun, Museum Exhibition Department, eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2022, pp. 147, 260, cat. no. 73-4, col. repr.

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