Blue Lithograph (Lithographie 'Blau')
Medium
lithograph printed in red, blue, and black on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 32.3 x 28.4 cm (12 11/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection
Accession Number
2011.60.37
About the Artist
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian-born painter and art theorist who is widely credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, producing some of the earliest non-representational paintings in Western art history. Born in Moscow, he initially studied law and economics at the University of Moscow before abandoning an academic career at thirty to study painting in Munich. In Munich, Kandin...