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Title:Free Curve to the Point - Accompanying Sound of Geometric Curves
Artist:Vasily Kandinsky (French (born Russia), Moscow 1866–1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine)
Date:1925
Medium:Ink on paper, mounted on board
Dimensions:18 1/4 × 15 1/16 in. (46.3 × 38.3 cm) Other (Paper): 15 3/16 × 12 in. (38.5 × 30.5 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1970
Object Number:1970.99
Inscription: Initialed and dated (lower left, in ink): VK 25
the artist (1925–d. 1944); his widow, Nina Kandinsky, Paris (1944–ca. 1967/68; sold in late 1967 or early 1968 to Leonard Hutton Galleries); [Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, ca. 1967–68; sold in March 1968 to Bodley Gallery]; [Bodley Gallery, New York, from 1968; sold to Greenstein]; Alvin Greenstein, New York (until 1969; sold in 1969 to Schab); [Margo Pollins Schab, New York, 1969–70; sold to MMA]
Berlin. Galerie Ferdinand Möller. "Sonder-Ausstellung W. Kandinsky: Zeichnungen 1910–1931, Neue Aquarelle, Graphik," February 1932, no. 16 (as "1925 Nr. 5").
Dresden. Galerie Neue Kunst Fides (Rudolf Probst). "Wassily Kandinsky, Karl Hofer, Gerhard Marcks," November 12–December 7, 1932, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Accessions, 1967–1974," March 7–April 23, 1974, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Klee and Friends," June 8–November 26, 1995, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paul Klee at the Bauhaus," April 18–August 17, 1997, no catalogue.
New York. Neue Galerie. "Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910–1925," October 3, 2013–February 10, 2014, no. 60.
Vasily Kandinsky. Punkt und Linie zu Fläche: Beitrag zur Analyse der malerischen Elemente. Munich, 1926, pl. 15, calls it "Freie Gebogene zum Punkt—Mitkilingen Geometrisch-gebogener".
"Unpublished Drawings of Kandinsky." XXe siècle (Twentieth Century) no. 5/6 (1939), ill. p. 51.
Hilla Rebay, ed. In Memory of Wassily Kandinsky. Exh. cat., Museum of Non-Objective Painting. New York, 1945, ill. back cover.
Vasily Kandinsky. Point and Line to Plane. Ed. Hilla Rebay. New York, 1947, pp. 176–77, diagram 15, ill. [English ed. of Ref. Kandinsky 1926].
Max Bill. Wassily Kandinsky. Paris, 1951, ill. p. 156, calls it "Dessin. No. 5".
Vasily Kandinsky. Essays über Kunst und Künstler. Ed. Max Bill. Stuttgart, 1955, ill. p. 78, calls it "No. 5".
André Chastel. "Kandinsky ou 'le voeu interieur,' 1921–1927." Derrière le miroir no. 118 (1960), ill. frontispiece.
Henry Geldzahler. "Reports of the Departments. Twentieth Century Art." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. One-Hundredth Annual Report of the Trustees 29 (October 1970), pp. 100–101, ill.
Henry Geldzahler in "Twentieth Century Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965–1975. New York, 1975, p. 213, ill., calls it "Free Curve to the Point".
Kenneth C. Lindsay and Peter Vergo, ed. Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art. Vol. 2, (1922–1943). Boston, 1982, ill. p. 688 (reprints Ref. Kandinsky 1926), call it "Independent curves juxtaposed with point—added sound of geometrical curve".
Patricia Railing. "The Cognitive Line in Russian Avant-Garde Art." Leonardo 31, no. 1 (1998), p. 68, fig. 2.
Vivian Endicott Barnett. Kandinsky Drawings: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1, Individual Drawings. London, 2006, p. 297, no. 615, ill. p. 341 (color), calls it "Zeichnung für 'Punkt und Linie zu Fläche' (Drawing for 'Point and Line to Plane')".
Vasily Kandinsky (French (born Russia), Moscow 1866–1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine)
1922
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