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Violet
1923
Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944)
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A colorful abstract print of stacked triangles and a circle with a bold diagonal line intersecting through to the upper right corner, with various geometric and organic shapes and intersecting lines
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Details

  • Artist Name: Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944)
  • Title: Violet
  • Date: 1923
  • Medium: Color lithograph on wove paper
  • Dimensions: comp: 11-3/4 x 7-1/2 in. (29.8 x 19.1 cm); sheet: 13-5/8 x 10-1/2 in. (34.6 x 26.7 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.204
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

  • New York, The Daniel Gallery, 1925-02-20 to 1925-03-10

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1986-08-07 to 1987-04-26

  • Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1972-02-15 to 1972-03-31

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-07-05 to 1973-09-28

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1989-01-19 to 1990-01-14

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1994-01-13 to 1994-09-11

  • Oakland Art Gallery, 1929-04 to 1929-05-10

  • Braxton Gallery, 1930-03-01 to 1930-03-15

  • Oakland Art Gallery, 1928-01-04 to 1928-01-29

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1991-06-20 to 1992-05-24

  • Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28

  • Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
  • Haas, Robert B., Du, p. 41
  • Grohmann, Will, Sélection, p. 29
  • Roethel, Hans Konrad, Kandinsky: Das graphische Werk, 1970, no. 178
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 253 pp. 95-96
  • Campbell Abdo, Sara, Wassily Kandinsky, 1994, p. 20
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 284 p. 240
  • Wünsche, Isabel, Galka E. Scheyer and the Blue Four: Correspondence 1924 - 1945, 2005, Plate VII p. 334

Additional Artwork by Artist

Blue Vassily Kandinsky 1922
Lithograph for the Fourth Bauhaus Portfolio Vassily Kandinsky 1922
Lithograph No. III Vassily Kandinsky 1925
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