At the Bauhaus, Kandinsky's style was characterized by a cooler, more geometric and "architectural" sensitivity. Yet even in the creative environment of the Bauhaus, Kandinsky at times felt alienated, as he wrote to Galka Scheyer in 1925, "It is not easy to 'get to the bottom' of my work and to sense what is living beneath the often very uncommunicative form. . . . I experience the same thing every time I progress a step further. For every new step forward a chorus of disappointed friends chants: 'Why don't you continue to paint as you did before?' And there often come times of great loneliness."
Details
- Artist Name: Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944)
- Title: Untitled
- Date: 1923
- Medium: Watercolor and India ink on wove paper from sketch pad
- Dimensions: 18-1/2 x 16-3/4 in. (47.0 x 42.5 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.209
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Works from the Pasadena Art Museum
- Vancouver Art Gallery, 1970-04-14 to 1970-05-10
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1970-09-08 to 1970-12-17
Bauhausausstellung
- Weimar, Staatliches Bauhaus, 1923-08-15 to 1923-09-30
Juryfreie Kunstschau
- Landesausstellungsgebaude am Lehrter Bahnhof, 1923-10 to
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- New York, The Daniel Gallery, 1925-02-20 to 1925-03-10
Blue Four exhibition
- Palo Alto, Stanford University, 1925-10 to 1925-10
Selections from the Permanent Collection
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1971-07-13 to 1971-09-19
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1931-04-08 to 1931-04-22
Blue Four exhibition
- Henry Art Gallery, 1927-10 to 1927-10
Kandinsky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-01-13 to 1994-09-11
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, Art Department, 1926-11 to 1926-12-28
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum, 1926-10 to
The Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Mills College Art Gallery, 1961-01-10 to 1961-02-19
Selections from Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Seattle Art Museum, 1956-10-10 to 1956-11-04
- Portland, Portland Art Museum, 1956-11-08 to 1956-11-30
- , 1957-01-01 to 1957-01-31
- Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1957-03-02 to 1957-04-01
- Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, 1957-11-15 to 1957-12-15
- San Francisco Museum of Art, 1958-01-14 to 1958-02-23
- Vancouver Art Gallery, 1956-07 to 1956-08-31
50 years bauhaus
- Stuttgart, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, 1968-05-05 to 1968-07-28
- Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), 1968-09-19 to 1968-10-27
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1968-11-30 to 1969-01-01
- Paris, Musee National d'Art Moderne, 1969-04-01 to 1969-06-22
- Illinois Institute of Technology, 1969-08-25 to 1969-09-26
- Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1969-12-05 to 1970-02-01
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1970-03-16 to 1970-04-26
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1970 to 1971
- Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, 1971 to 1971
Kandinsky Paintings and Graphics: Retrospective of Kandinsky's Bauhaus Years
- Norton Simon Museum, 1989-01-19 to 1990-01-14
The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1
- La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14
Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California
- Norton Simon Museum, 2017-04-07 to 2017-09-25
Bauhaus Painters; Spirit of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Oskar Schlemmer, Alexander Archipenko, Alexei Jawlensky and Others
- Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
- Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
- Haas, Robert B., Du, p. 36
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 235 pp. 83, 86
- Campbell Abdo, Sara, Wassily Kandinsky, 1994, p. 21
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonné, 1922-1944, 1994, no. 628
- The Blue Four. Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World, 1997, fig. 7 p. 24
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 285 p. 241
- Wünsche, Isabel, Galka E. Scheyer and the Blue Four: Correspondence 1924 - 1945, 2005, Plate VIII p. 335
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