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Small worlds VII

Small worlds VII
(Kleine Welten Vll)
 (1922)
no. 7 from the Kleine Welten (Small worlds) series, published 1922

Medium
colour lithograph
Measurements
27.0 × 23.0 cm (image) 33.8 × 28.1 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
Weimar, Germany
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Roethel 170
Edition
edition of 230
Inscription
incised in block l.l.c.: K (monogram)
inscribed in pencil below image l.r.: Kandinsky
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.c.: 428 / 8 / 01934
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.: Kleine Welten VII
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.c.: Bg / B/.20 (...illeg.)
Accession Number
2010.124
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by the Margaret Stones Fund for International Prints and Drawings and the Supporters of Prints and Drawings, 2010
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work

Excited by the opportunity to influence revolutionary developments at the Bauhaus, Wassily Kandinsky moved to Weimar in 1922 and began teaching colour and form as part of the compulsory preliminary course. At this time, a new style of geometric abstraction emerged in his work. In Small worlds VII, Kandinsky portrays a self-contained cosmos comprised of dynamic arrangements of lines, patterns, geometric shapes and primary colours. In keeping with Kandinsky’s developing interest in geometric abstraction, the horse and rider – his signature motif – are reduced to a series of linear arabesques in the lower left corner of the composition.