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Untitled
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right in Russian (trans. by Janna Kasumova): "purple with … / green background / 5 … … …/ 11 x 16 … / … … / around"
Provenance
Sold by Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, February 21, 1964 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.
Exhibition history
New York, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, 1963, cat. 216. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, April 1965. Wellesley. Mass., Wellesley College Art Museum, "Two Women Collect," April 2–25, 1976. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, January 26–April 27, 1980. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings," June 11– September 7, 1999, checklist 22.
Publications
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonné I (London, 1992), p. 400, no. 456 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Vasily Kandinsky / French, born Russia, 1866-1944
- Date
- September 1, 1916
- Medium
- Pen and brush and black ink, gray wash, with touches of graphite, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 25.3 × 34.2 cm (10 × 13 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- brush and ink
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1998.701
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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