DrawingsGerman20th century

Wassily Kandinsky’s 1923 Questionnaire to determine the synthetic relations between color and form

1923-1924

Artists

Marianne BrandtArtist

Wassily KandinskyArtist

Classification

Drawings

Technique

Letterpress

Medium

Gouache and ink over letterpress on paper

Culture

German

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Busch-Reisinger Museum

Dimensions

23.2 × 14.6 cm (9 1/8 × 5 3/4 in.)

Provenance

[Michael R. Weintraub, Inc., New York], sold; to The Merrill C. Berman Collection (c. 2016-2021), sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2021.

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