Geteilt (Divided)

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Medium

watercolor and ink on wove paper on Kandinsky's original black paper mount

Dimensions

Overall: 48.3 x 32 cm (19 x 12 5/8 in.) mount: 51.2 x 33.7 cm (20 3/16 x 13 1/4 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Kellen

Accession Number

1999.51.1

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...

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