lithograph, vellum paper, 38x38 cm, signed with monogram on plate and dated '23. Atelier Mourlot for Maeght Editeur.
The work comes from the art magazine Derrière le Miroir, vol. 60-61, a special issue devoted to unknown works by Kandinsky from the Munich period, published in 1953 by Maeght Editeur in Paris.
Wassily Kandinsky - Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist, co-founder and one of the representatives of abstractionism. In 1901, he founded the art group Die Phalanx. Within four years, Kandinsky organized twelve exhibitions for members of the group. In 1909, together with Jawlensky, Kanoldt, Kubin, Münter, among others, he founded the Neue Künstlervereinigung (German for new association of artists) and was appointed its president. Kandinsky's greatest success is considered to be the founding of Der Blaue Reiter group in 1911 (together with his friend Franz Marc). In the same year, the artist found his taste in literature. In 1912 he published his first book "On Spirituality in Art." He was active in the Wchutiemas and the Bauhaus. He grounded his thinking about art in metaphysical speculation; he believed that art has a metaphysical function, that a work of art is a gateway to transcendence.
