Art Institute of Chicago
The Green Line
Vasily Kandinsky · 1938
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mme. Jeanne Bucher, Paris, March 1941 [according to Barnett 1994, Kandinsky himself made this provenance notation in his handlist]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. Hans von der Marwitz, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1953.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Claremont, Calif., Pomona College, 1966.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, August 1993-May 1994.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Literature
Published references
- Weltekunst, 24:20 (October 15, 1954), p. 4 (ill.).
- Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work (New York, 1958), pp. 347 and 411 (ill.).
- Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 250.
- Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944 (Ithaca, 1994), p. 432, no. 1226 (ill.).
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