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Kandinsky, Stars, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)

1938

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Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Signed and dated in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. I, N° 2, Spring 1938 (March-June). Printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1938. Excepted from the volume, This the second number of Verve was printed in paris. Typography and process color work: imprimerie des Beaux-Arts. Heliogravure in colors: Draeger frères. Heliogravure in black and white: néogravure. Lithography: Mourlot frères. WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art and in influence to the Modern masters including, Picasso. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, Ukraine, where he graduated from Odessa Art School. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession, he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia). Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896 Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky," and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting. However, by then "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society", and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944, three days before his 78th birthday.
  • Creation Year:
    1938
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 10.5 in (26.67 cm)
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  • After:
    Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944, Russian)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Auburn Hills, MI
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1465213939232
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