Lot 150 | Wassily Kandinsky | Kleine Welten

KANDINSKY, WASSILY
1866 Moscow - 1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine

Title: Kleine Welten.
Subtitle: Complete portfolio with 12 prints.
Date: 1922.
Technique: a) Kleine Welten I-IV. Each colour lithograph on laid paper. Additionally dated in printing medium. b) Kleine Welten V-VII. Each wood cut on laid paper, two of which coloured. c) Kleine Welten IX-XII. Each dry point etching on laif paper.
Measurement: Various printing measurements. Sheet measurements at 30 x 27cm up to 36 x 31.5cm.
Notation: Each signed and monogrammed in print medium.
Publisher: Propyläen Verlag, Berlin (publisher). 

Published outside of the edition of 230 copies. In original portfolio (46 x 35 x 2cm).

Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (since ca. 1980 due to inheritance)

Literature:
- Röthel, Hans Konrad: Kandinsky - Das graphische Werk, Cologne 1970, cat. rais. no. 164-175
- cf. Grohmann, Will: Kandinsky, Oeuvre Gravé, Paris 1954, no. 7-20, ill.
- cf. Brisch, Klaus: Wassily Kandinsky, Bonn 1955, p. 359
- cf. Grohmann, Will: Wassily Kandinsky, Cologne 1958, p. 186
- cf. Wingler, Hans Maria (ed.): Das Bauhaus, Bramsche 1962, p. 316
- cf. Riedl, Peter Anselm: Kleine Welten, Stuttgart 1962
- Weber, Klaus: Druckgraphik der Bauhausmeister, Berlin 1999, pp. 80-96
- Friedel, Helmut/ Hoberg, Annegret (eds.): Kandinsky - Das Druckgraphische Werk, Cologne 2008, no. 123-134, ill.
- cf. Exhib. cat. Drucksache Bauhaus, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 2020, cat. III 1-14, ill

- Kleine Welten was created shortly after Wassily Kandinsky returned to Germany and joined Paul Klee at the Bauhaus
- The influence of Constructivism is evident in this series, as is Kandinsky's central interest in the psychology of color, expressed through geometric forms that are exclusively abstract in character
- Particularly well-preserved copy with freshly colored prints