The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
Small Worlds II
1922
(Russian, 1866–1944)
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1950.203
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Roethel 165
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Vassily Kandinsky trained and worked as a lawyer before beginning his artistic career at age 30.Description
The title of this print suggests both its cosmic imagery and Vassily Kandinsky’s exploration of various printmaking techniques—each offering their own world of experimentation—throughout the portfolio Small Worlds. The project consisted of etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs that each emphasized the unique qualities of the process used to make them. The bright, flat tones of this color lithograph relate to Kandinsky’s work at the Bauhaus, an experimental art school in Germany where he taught color theory beginning in 1922.- after 1922-1950(Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH)1950Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH1950-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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