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Small Worlds IV

1922

Wassily Kandinsky

Associated Names

Wassily Kandinsky

Artist, Russian, 1866 - 1944

The image displays intersecting lines, circles, and geometric shapes arranged in an abstract manner. A large black circle is the focal point, surrounded by various colored shapes including elongated rectangles in mustard and green. Patterns of checks and arcs are present, along with dots and small triangular shapes. Angular lines resembling grass are near the bottom of the composition.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color lithograph
Credit Line

Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)
Accession Number

1971.9.4
Catalogue Raisonné

Roethel 1970, no. 167

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1984

Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1984.

Bibliography

1970

Roethel, Hans Konrad. Kandinsky; das graphische Werk. Schauberg: Verlag M. Du Mont, 1970.

Wikidata ID

Q65512291

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