BOOKS ON THE ARTIST WASSILY KANDINSKY
KANDINSKY, WASSILY. Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Painting in Particular 1912. 95 pp., small 4to, wraps. New York, Wittenborn, Schultz, 1947.
Freitag 4712.
Item nr. 2564
$ 75.00
Grohmann, Will. WASSILY KANDINSKY: Life and Work. 428 pp. with over 900 illus., 41 in color. 4to, cloth. New York, Abrams, (n.d.).
Freitag 4708. Spalek 2670.
Item nr. 2567
$ 175.00
KANDINSKY, Vasily. Kandinsky. By Will Grohmann. Illustrated with an original woodcut by Kandinsky and 74 plates. Small folio, bound in recent half-morocco. Paris: Cahiers d'Art, 1930.
A fine copy of the first substantial monograph on Kandinsky containing a superb original colour woodcut. In addition to the text by Grohmann, there are contributions by Katherine Dreier, Maurice Raynal, Tériade and Zervos and among others. One of an edition of 610 copies.
Item nr. 2568
$ 2,750.00
London. Sotheby & Co. Catalogue of Fifty Paintings by VASILY KANDINSKY. The Property of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Auction catalogue, all items illus. in color, 4to, boards. 1964.
Spalek 2767.
Item nr. 2570
$ 50.00
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. VASILY KANDINSKY: Painting on Glass (Hinterglasmalerei). 15 pp. text, followed by 52 illustrations, some in color, 8vo, wraps. 1966.
Item nr. 2573
$ 35.00
New York. Guggenheim Museum. VASILY KANDINSKY 1866-1944. 126 pp., incl texts by several contributors, profusely illus., some in color, small folio, wraps. 1962.
Freitag 4724. Spalek 2765.
Item nr. 2574
$ 65.00
Roethel, Hans Konrad, Thomas M. Messer and Michael Petzet. The Graphic Work of KANDINSKY. A Loan Exhibition. 87 pp., 75 illustrations, some in color. 4to, wraps. Washington, International Exhibitions Foundation, 1973.
Accompanies a travelling exhibition.
Item nr. 2575
$ 50.00
New York. Marlborough-Gerson. KANDINSKY: The Bauhaus Years. Unpaginated catalogue with 2 pp. preface by Will Grohman and 50 illus., some in color, square 4to, wraps. 1966.
Spalek 2737.
Item nr. 2577
$ 25.00
Paris. Centre Georges Pompidou. KANDINSKY. Trente Peintures des Musees Sovietiques. Preface by Pontus Hullen. Text by Kandinsky. Interview by C.A. Julien, 89 pp., 30 color plates, 4to, wraps. 1979.
Item nr. 2579
$ 40.00
Roethel, Hans K. & Jean K. Benjamin. KANDINSKY: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume 2; 1916-1944. Pages 567-1118, with over 575 entries, many in color. Square folio, cloth. London, Philip Wilson, 1984.
Freitag 4722 (cites the German edition).
Item nr. 2581
$ 125.00
Roethel, Hans Konrad. KANDINSKY. Das graphische Werk. xxix, 504 pp. catalogue raisonne, fully illus., some in color, some folding. Folio, cloth with dustjacket in original slipcase. Koln, DuMont Schauberg, 1970.
A fine copy. Rare. Limited to 1500 copies. Not in Freitag. Spalek 2760.
Item nr. 4455
$ 2,250.00
Zurich. Kunsthaus. KANDINSKY in Russland und am Bauhaus 1915-1933. 303 pp. with 304 color and monochrome plates, over 60 b&w text figs., square 8vo, wraps, 1984.
Item nr. 6980
$ 100.00
Paris. Centre Georges Pompidou. KANDINSKY. Oeuvres de Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). 496 pp, beautifully illustrated in color and b&w. Folio, wraps, 1985.
Item nr. 7193
$ 275.00
NEW YORK. Hutton-Hutschnecker Gallery. Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke: Drawings and Watercolors. xv pp. text with over sixty plates, many in color. 4to, wraps. 1969.
Item nr. 10393
$ 35.00
New York. Guggenheim. VASILY KANDINSKY 1866-1944 in the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum. Unpaginated exhibition catalogue with more than 100 full-page reproductions, approximately 20 in color. Large square 4to, wraps. 1972.
Freitag 4702.
Item nr. 12838
$ 35.00
Roethel, Hans in collaboration with Jean K. Benjamin. KANDINSKY. 172 pp. with 48 tipped-in color plates and 153 b&w illustrations. Folio, cloth. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1979.
Item nr. 18481
$ 65.00
New York. Pace Gallery. KANDINSKY: Watercolors and Drawings 1911-1943. Unoaginated with several b&w and color plates. Oblong 4to, stapled wraps.1973.
Item nr. 18486
$ 20.00
London. Lefevre Gallery. KANDINSKY. 82 pp. including 33 color plates. London, The Lefevre Gallery, 1973.
Item nr. 21398
$ 50.00
KANDINSKY, WASSILY. Concerning the Spiritual in Art. 93 pp. text illustrated with b&w diagrams and reproductions. 4to, wraps. New York, Wittenborn, 1947.
Item nr. 21878
$ 75.00
Bill, Max. KANDINSKY: Essays uber Kunst und Kunstler. 248 pp. collection of essays and illustrations by the artist with a preface and notes by Max Bill. 4to, cloth. Stuttgart, Hatje, 1955.
Item nr. 23598
$ 50.00
New York. Guggenheim Museum. KANDINSKY: Russian and Bauhaus Years, 1915-1933. 360 pp. catalogue with hundreds of illustrations, some in color. 4to, wraps. 1983.
Item nr. 26030
$ 35.00
Barnett, Vivian Endicott. KANDINSKY Watercolours. Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One. 1900-1921. 555 pp with 80 color and approximately 500 b&w plates. Large thick 4to, cloth. London, Wilson, 1991.
The first of two projected volumes; a catalogue raisonne.
Item nr. 27080
$ 135.00
Munich. Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus. KANDINSKY und Munchen. Begegnungen und Wandlungen, 1896 - 1914. 450 pp. include nearly 500 illustrations, a few are in color. Square 4to, wraps. 1982.
Item nr. 27182
$ 100.00
New York. Guggenheim Museum. KANDINSKY Watercolors. 76 pp. catalogue with 50 illustrations in b&w and color. 4to, wraps. 1980.
Item nr. 28361
$ 85.00
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. KANDINSKY in Paris, 1934-1944. 268 pp. text by Derouet and Barnett, well illustrated with 56 b&w figures and 199 b&w plates, few in color. Stout 4to, wraps. 1985.
Item nr. 29220
$ 45.00
New York. Guggenheim Museum. Watercolors by KANDINSKY at the Guggenheim. Catalogue with a brief text and 70 full page color plates. 1991.
Item nr. 29720
$ 60.00
Frankfurt. Schirn Kunsthalle. WASSILY KANDINSKY, Die Erste Sowjetische Retrospektive: Gemalde, Zeichnungen und Graphik aus Sowjetischen und Westlichen Museen. 271 pp. include 155 plates, most in color. Large 4to, wraps. 1989.
Item nr. 31840
$ 75.00
Dusseldorf. Sammlung Nordrheim Westfalen. KANDINSKY. Watercolors and Drawings. Text by Vivian Barnett; 231 pp. with 70 b&w and 200 color illustrations. 4to, cloth. Munich, Prestel, 1992.
Item nr. 32034
$ 225.00
New York. Guggenheim Museum. KANDINSKY in Munich, 1896 - 1914. 312 pp. include over 300 illustrations, some in color. 4to, wraps. 1982.
Item nr. 32589
$ 19.50
Basel. Kunsthalle. WASSILY KANDINSKY, 1866 - 1944, Gesamtausstellung. 124 pp. include nearly 90 illustrations, some in color. Large 4to, wraps. [n.d.].
Item nr. 32604
$ 75.00
Hahl-Koch, Jelena. KANDINSKY. 431 pp., 420 illustrations, 200 in color. Folio, cloth. New York, Rizzoli, 1993.
An important study on this pioneer of modern painting, incorporating the latest scholarship on the artist's life and work. This is the first monograph to include the many works which have been brought to light with the opening up of the Soviet Union, offering a substantial contribution to the understanding of Kandinsky's oeuvre.
Item nr. 36855
$ 375.00
Florence. Palazzo Strozzi. WASSILI KANDINSKY: Tra Oriente e Occidente, Capolavori dai Musei Russi. 267 pp. include over 30 full-page color plates with facing-page descriptions and small color insets, plus numerous text illustrations. Folio, wraps. Florence, Artificio, 1993.
A catalogue from a 1993 exhibition in Florence presenting more than 30 works from the period between 1900 and 1920. Many of these paintings were buried in provincial Russian museums and have had little or no previous exposure in the West.
Item nr. 38701
$ 60.00
Dabrowski, Magdalena. VASILY KANDINSKY Compositions. 128 pp., 112 illustrations, 37 in color. 4to, cloth. New York, Abrams with the Museum of Modern Art, 1995.
These powerful and evocative canvases by Russian-born artist Kandinsky (1866-1944) were created between 1909 and 1913 (the first seven) and then in 1923, 1936, and 1939. The Museum of Modern Art, New York presents together for the first time the seven extant "Compositions" (IV-X), along with many studies in oil, watercolor, ink, and pencil. In the book all ten "Compositions" are reproduced with their supporting works.
Item nr. 41191
$ 45.00
Rebay, Hilla [ed.]. KANDINSKY. 47 pp. include 10 tipped-in plates, some in color, and other text figures in b&w. Folio, cloth. New York, Museum of Non-Objective Paintings, 1945.
Item nr. 42499
$ 50.00
Lugano. Kandinsky: Nelle Collezione Svizzere. 308 pp., with 85 colour illustrations and numerous b&w text-figures. 4to, wraps. Geneva, Skira, 1995.
Item nr. 43162
$ 75.00
Barnett, Vivian Endicott. VASILY KANDINSKY: A Colorful Life. The Collection of the Lenbachhaus, Munich. 664 pp. with over 600 color and 100 b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. New York, Harry Abrams, 1996.
Item nr. 44689
$ 150.00
NEW YORK. Leonard Hutton Galleries. The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee. 81 pp. with 65 color illustrations, 4to, wraps. 1984.
Item nr. 45903
$ 15.00
Levin, Gail and Marianne Lorenz. Theme & Improvisation: KANDINSKY & the American Avant-Garde 1912-1950. 236 pp., 82 color and 43 b&w illustrations. 4to, wraps. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1992.
Published to accompany an exhibition organised by the Dayton Art Institute.
Item nr. 47030
$ 40.00
Guerman, Mikhail. KANDINSKY. 159 pp. with numerous color and b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. Bournemouth, Parkstone Press, 1998.
This volume features Kandinsky's major works from Russian museums.
Item nr. 51015
$ 40.00
Romachkova, Lidia. KANDINSKY et la Russie. Text by various authors; 336 pp., illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. . 4to, boards. Martigny. Fondation Pierre Giannada, 2000.
Item nr. 91576
$ 75.00
Zehder, Hugo. WASSILY KANDINSKY. (From "Kunstler der Gegenwart"-series, vol 1). 63 pages, including 1 color, and 10 b&w plates. 4to, cloth. Dresden, Rudolf Kaemmerer Verlag, 1920.
Text in German.
Item nr. 97263
$ 85.00
Roethel, Hans K. and Jean K. Benjamin. KANDINSKY: Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings,1900-1915, 1916-1944, 2 vols folio, cloth. Ithaca, Cornell, 1982-1984.
Freitag 4722 (cites the German edition).
Item nr. 98769
$ 975.00
Hahl-Koch, Jelena. ARNOLD SCHONBERG / WASSILY KANDINSKY: Briefe, Bilder und Dokumente einer Aussergewohnlichen Begegnung. 278 pages, including 23 color plates and other illustrations. 8vo, cloth. Salzburg, Residenz, 1980.
Text in German.
Item nr. 107271
$ 50.00
Barnett, Vivian Endicott. KANDINSKY Drawings: Catalogue Raisonne. Volume One: Individual Drawing. 600 pp., roughly 75 color and 1,370 b&w illustrations. Large 4to, cloth. London, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2006.
This first volume of a two-volume catalogue raisonné comprises 1,236 individual drawings and sketches spanning all periods of the artis's career, from before 1900 to 1944. It begins with an addendum of 15 watercolors and 2 oil paintings not included in the previous four volumes of the catalogue raisonné, followed by India ink drawings, small pencil sketches, and individual works arranged in chronological order..
Item nr. 121859
$ 365.00
Barnett, Vivian Endicott. KANDINSKY Drawings: Catalogue Raisonné. Volume Two: Sketchbooks. 376 pp., hundreds of b&w and color illustrations. 4to, cloth. London, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2007.
Volume Two is devoted to Kandinsky's 38 sketchbooks that have remained intact. Intended as a companion to Volume One, it illustrates and documents all the sketchbook pages with drawings, which belong primarily to the Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich and to the Musee National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Many of the drawings, which date from 1889 to 1943, have never been published before. In addition, there is an appendix of rare wood sculptures and decorative objects that Kandinsky created, as well as an appendix with new information and color reproductions of paintings and watercolors included, but not illustrated, in previous volumes
Item nr. 121860
$ 235.00
Tupitsyn, Margarita. Gegen Kandinsky/Against KANDINSKY. Foreword by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzka; 184 pp., 142 color and b&w illustrations. Large 8vo, boards. Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2007.
Against Kandinsky examines the division between Expressionism and Geometric Abstraction. Kandinsky holds a unique position as both the originator of Expressionist painting and a tireless defender of the intuitive mode of abstraction. This book consists of four parts, each presenting an argument for a certain resistance against the styles and ideas that Kandinsky represented.
Item nr. 122964
$ 50.00
Friedel, Helmut and Annegret Hoberg (editors) et al. VASILY KANDINSKY. 320 pages, over 300 color and 150 b&w illustrations. Folio, boards. With facsimile of "Kleine Welten", unpaginated, 12 color plates. Folio, cloth-backed wraps in wraps portfolio. Both volumes in slipcase. Munich, Berlin, London, New York, Prestel, 2008.
A beautifully illustrated, oversized book with essays by the world's leading Kandinsky experts focusing on the evolution of his work throughout all periods of his career. Among the book's special features is an added stand-alone facsimile of "Kleine Welten" (Small Worlds), a series of 12 prints first published in a limited edition in 1922.
Item nr. 130898
$ 185.00
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