Kandinsky drawings : catalogue raisonné
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Kandinsky drawings : catalogue raisonné
Philip Wilson , C.H. Beck, c2006-2007
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Note
"Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich with the support of the Société Kandinsky Paris"
Includes bibliographical references (p. 551-553, v. 1) and index
Contents of Works
- v. 1. Individual drawings
- v. 2. Sketchbooks
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 ISBN 9780856676222
Description
The first volume of the catalogue raisonne comprises 1236 works from all periods of Vasily Kandinsky's career. It begins with an addendum of fifteen watercolors and two oil paintings, which were not included in the previous four volumes of the catalogue raisonne, followed by India ink drawings, sketches and individual works. There is complete provenance, exhibition history and bibliography for each catalogue entry as well as numerous commentaries discussing date, iconography and related works. Vivian Barnett has written a text on the artist's discovery of his own drawings in the early 1930s and his efforts to exhibit them during his lifetime. The volume concludes with a comprehensive list of one-person and group exhibitions, a selective bibliography and indexes. A second volume, which is devoted to Kandinsky's thirty-five sketchbooks that have remained intact, will be published in spring 2007.
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v. 2 ISBN 9780856676369
Description
Vasily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and, at the age of thirty, decided to study painting in Munich. Although he travelled extensively, Kandinsky lived primarily in Germany until 1914 and again from 1922-1933, when he taught at the Bauhaus. He moved to Paris in 1934 and continued to draw and paint until his death in 1944. The two-volume catalogue raisonne of Kandinsky's drawings publishes many drawings for the first time and presents new insights into the artist's creative process. This second volume is devoted to Kandinsky's thirty-eight sketchbooks that have remained intact. Intended as a companion to Volume One, it illustrates and documents all the sketchbook pages with drawings. The sketchbooks belong primarily to the Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich and to the Musee National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Many of the drawings, which date from 1889 to 1943, have never been published before. Ms. Barnett contributes a text on Kandinsky's sketchbooks, an aspect of his work that has not been previously studied.
In addition there is an appendix of rare wood sculptures and decorative objects that Kandinsky created as well as an appendix with new information and color reproductions of paintings and watercolours included, but not illustrated, in previous volumes. The two volumes on the drawings complete the series of catalogues raisonnes of Kandinsky's work. Indispensable for scholars, collectors and art lovers, they follow the same format and high standard as the previous volumes on the oil-paintings and the watercolours.
Table of Contents
Preface
Personal Perspectives: Kandinsky's Sketchbooks, 1889-1943
Brief Biography
Explanatory Notes
CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Addendum
Appendix I Decorative Arts
Appendix II Works included but not illustrated in the Kandinsky Catalogues Raisonnes of Oil Paintings and Watercolors
Select Bibliography
Kandinsky Exhibitions
Photographic Acknowledgements
Index
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