Kandinsky's first contribution to the Bauhaus printing workshop was a portfolio entitled "Small Worlds." This group of twelve prints included lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts. Ten years later, Kandinsky reminded Scheyer of the portfolio's high quality: "All copies were printed under my continuous guidance. . . .the entire execution is first class."
Details
- Artist Name: Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944)
- Title: Small Worlds I
- Date: 1922
- Medium: Color lithograph, on Japanese wove paper
- Edition: Edition of 30
- Dimensions: comp: 9-3/4 x 8-5/8 in. (24.8 x 21.9 cm); sheet: 13-5/8 x 11-1/8 in. (34.6 x 28.3 cm)
- Publisher: Propylaen Verlag, Berlin
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Accession Number: M.1978.07.G
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
Catalogue 1: German Prints
- Alice Adam, 1977 to
Kandinsky Paintings and Graphics: Retrospective of Kandinsky's Bauhaus Years
- Norton Simon Museum, 1989-01-19 to 1990-01-14
Kandinsky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-01-13 to 1994-09-11
My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
- Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
- Grohmann, Will, Sélection, 1933, p. 29
- Roethel, Hans Konrad, Kandinsky: Das graphische Werk, 1970, no. 164
- Campbell Abdo, Sara, Wassily Kandinsky, 1994, p. 8
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 270 pp. 226-227
- Weber, Nicholas Fox and Jessica Boissel, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky: Friends in Exile, 2010, p. 72
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 1505 p. 414
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