Kleine Welten V. 1922.
Lithograph in colors.
Roethel 168. Signed. Monogrammed in teh stone. From an edition of 200 copies on this type of paper. On wove paper. 27.5 x 23.4 cm (10.8 x 9.2 in). Sheet: 35,5 x 27,5 cm (13,9 x 10,9 in).
The sheet announced as color woodcut in the portfolio was actually realized as a color lithograph, cf. Roethel, p. 452, note. 14.
Sheet 5 from the famous series "Kandinsky. Kleine Welten" comprising a total of 12 sheets. Published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin. [EH].
• "Well, the whole execution is one-off" (W.Kandinsky to Galka Scheyer on May 4, 1932 after Roethel, p.452)
• Made during Kandinsky's time at the Bauhaus in Weimar
• Other sheets from this edition are in possession of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Museum of Occidental Art, Tokyo and the Kongelige Kobberstiksamling, Copenhagen.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.
Private collection Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1977).

LITERATURE: Wolfgang Ketterer, November 28, 1977 A 24 lot 1028 with illu.