Geteilt (Divided)
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View on museum website →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...