BR34.11: Small Worlds VI, from the portfolio "Small Worlds"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR34.11

People

Wassily Kandinsky, Russian (Moscow, Russia 1866 - 1944 Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France)

Title

Small Worlds VI, from the portfolio "Small Worlds"

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Kleine Welten VI

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1922

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/226009

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Woodcut printed in black ink on white wove paper

Technique

Woodcut

Dimensions

block: 27.3 x 23.3 cm (10 3/4 x 9 3/16 in.)
sheet: 35.5 x 33.8 cm (14 x 13 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Kandinsky

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Roethel 169

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Anonymous gift

Copyright

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Accession Year

1934

Object Number

BR34.11

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 116, repr.

Exhibition History

• From Werkbund to Bauhaus: Art and Design in Germany 1900-1934, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1980 - 04/26/1980
• Klee and Kandinsky: Works from the Harvard Collection and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/17/1981
• 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/07/1981 - 11/11/1981

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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