Blue Lithograph (Lithographie 'Blau')

1922

Wassily Kandinsky

Associated Names
Wassily Kandinsky

Artist, Russian, 1866 - 1944

This abstract print displays intersecting lines and curving shapes in black, blue-gray, and light red. Near the top left corner is a circular form with different bands of colors around a black circle at the center, giving it the impression of an eye. At the center of the print, a thin, ladder-like form stretches upwards, surrounded by swirling lines that look like waves and a black shape that looks like a boat with a tall mast set at a diagonal angle. Around these larger shapes are smaller shapes in black, blue, and red, including triangles, squares, circles, and shapes that look like paw prints. The background is beige paper.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph printed in red, blue, and black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 32.3 x 28.4 cm (12 11/16 x 11 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.60.37

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Roethel 1970, no. 163


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago); Evelyn Nef, Washington, D.C.; bequest to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1954

  • An Exhibition in Memory of Elinor Castle Nef, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 1954, no. 23.

Bibliography

1970

  • Roethel, Hans Konrad. Kandinsky; das graphische Werk. Schauberg: Verlag M. Du Mont, 1970: no. 163

Inscriptions

lower left in image: K 22; lower right in graphite: Kandinsky

Wikidata ID

Q75423479

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