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1947 After Wassily Kandinsky, "Construction Legere" First Edition Parisian Lithograph
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An excellent vintage First Edition offset lithograph, print, after painting "Construction Legere" (Light Construction) by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). Comes from …
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An excellent vintage First Edition offset lithograph, print, after painting "Construction Legere" (Light Construction) by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). Comes from a rare First Limited Edition art folio published by Albert Skira in France, in 1947. Printed on one side. Hand tipped-in on a board of heavy paper. Information regarding the original artwork is printed under the piece. Superb quality of printing and materials. Very detailed. Colors are deep and vivid. Excellent condition - minor edge wear on the board, never framed.
Overall 11"W x 14.75"H
Image 7.25"W x 10.75"H
I find it interesting that in this piece, under the plate, after the artist's name, the published put only the year of birth - 1866. Kandinsky passed away in France in 1944. Could the published not know that the artist passed away just 3 years before this lithograph was published? It was past-war Europe, and of course, there was no internet.
Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 to a multicultural, bourgeois family: his father was a tea merchant from Siberia, his mother descended from Mongolian aristocracy. He trained as a lawyer, and was Associate Professor of Law at Moscow University before ever picking up a paintbrush. Everything changed when, in 1896, he came upon a painting from Monet’s ‘Haystack’ series in an exhibition — and was awestruck.
That year, at the age of 30, Kandinsky abandoned his career and moved to Munich to study art. Among the early styles he embraced were Impressionism and Jugendstil (the German equivalent of Art Nouveau). Travels across the rest of Europe followed, before he settled with his lover, Gabriele Münter, in the picturesque Bavarian town of Murnau in the foothills of the Alps.
Kandinsky is hailed, alongside Piet Mondrian and Kasimir Malevich, as one of the fathers of abstract art, and in the years leading up to the First World War (considered for many the peak of Kandinsky’s career), he accelerated toward non-representational painting. In works such as Improvisation mit Pferden (Improvisation with Horses), below, colour is no longer contained by line, and Kandinsky essayed a new kind of imagery in which form took precedence over content.
When Germany declared war on Russia in 1914, Kandinsky became an enemy alien and was forced to return to his homeland. After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, he briefly — and enthusiastically — served as a commissar in the new regime’s Culture Ministry. He also participated in a number of group exhibitions. In time, however, as limits began to be placed on creative freedoms, Kandinsky (with his wife Nina, whom he’d married in 1917) decided to return to Germany.
In 1921, at the age of 55, Kandinsky moved to Weimar to teach mural painting and introductory analytical drawing at the newly founded Bauhaus school. There he worked alongside the likes of Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers. He had lost none of his messianic zeal, and believed fully in the Bauhaus philosophy of social improvement through art.
In 1933, not long after assuming power, the Nazi party closed the Bauhaus, prompting Kandinsky and his wife to move to the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Initially they hoped the relocation would be for just a year or two, after which time they expected politics in Germany to have cooled. ‘We aren’t leaving for good,’ he wrote to his friend the art critic Will Grohmann, in 1934. ‘I couldn’t do that; my roots are too deep in German soil.’
In 1937, however, Nazi authorities ordered the removal of 57 pieces by Kandinsky from the nation’s museums. Fourteen of these were included in the infamous Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition that opened in Munich that year — the show in which Hitler displayed the works of avant-garde artists he deemed to be ‘driving forces of corruption’. Kandinsky became a French citizen in 1939.
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- Dimensions
- 11ʺW × 0.1ʺD × 14.75ʺH
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- 1940s
- Country of Origin
- Switzerland
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Lithograph
- Paper
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Teal
- Condition Notes
- Excellent condition - minor edge wear on the board, never framed. Excellent condition - minor edge wear on the board, never framed. less
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