Painting with Troika by Vasily Kandinsky
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Painting with Troika

Vasily Kandinsky · January 18, 1911

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859–1920), Chicago, by 1920; by descent to his wife Lucy O. Eddy (1863-1931) and son Jerome O. Eddy (1891-1951), Chicago, 1920; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Zurich, Kunsthaus, Moderner Bund, July 1912, hors cat.
  • Frankfurt, Galerie Goldschmidt, 1912.
  • Chicago, Art Institute, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, September 19-October 22, 1922, cat. 39.
  • Chicago, Art Institute, The Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, December 22, 1931-January 17, 1932, cat. 7 (ill.).
  • San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Circuit Exhibition, 1932.
  • Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, Exhibition of Russian Paintings, February 16-March 12, 1945, n. pag., cat. 47.
  • Chicago, Arts Club, Wassily Kandinsky Memorial Exhibition, November 1945, cat. 50.
  • Minneapolis, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, German Expressionism in Art, 1905-1935: Painting, Sculpture, Prints, October 23-November 27, 1950, cat. 42.
  • Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Mit dem Auge des Kindes: Kinderzeichnung und Moderne Kunst, May 31-August 20, 1995, cat. 3.16 (color ill.); traveled to Bern, Kunstmuseum, September 7-November 26, 1995.

Literature

Published references

  • Kandinsky, 1901-1913 (Berlin: Der Sturm, 1913), p. 56 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), cat. 39.
  • “Two Exhibitions of Modern Art,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 16, 5 (October 1922), p. 69 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), cat. 7 (ill.).
  • Arts Club of Chicago, Wassily Kandinsky Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1945), cat. 50.
  • Society of the Four Arts, Exhibition of Russian Paintings, exh. cat. (Palm Beach, Fla.: Society of the Four Arts, 1945), cat. 47.
  • University Gallery, University of Minnesota, German Expressionism in Art, 1905-1935: Painting, Sculpture, Prints, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1950), cat. 42.
  • Lindsay, Kenneth C., “The Genesis and Meaning of the Cover Design for the First Blaue Reiter Exhibition Catalogue,” Art Bulletin 35 (March 1953), p. 49.
  • Selz, Peter, German Expressionist Painting (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957), pp. 204-5, pl. 83 (ill.).
  • Grohmann, Will, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, trans. Norbert Guterman (New York: H. N. Abrams, 1958), pp. 104, 107, 331 (no. 120), 353 (ill. 53).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 249.
  • Messer, Thomas M., “Kandinsky en Amerique,” XXe Siècle 27 (December 1966), p. 113.

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