Dimensions: 37 x 49.5 cm (inside the mat)
signed and dated with the artist’s monogram on the plate, lower left: 'VK21'
The work is from the art magazine "Derriere le miroir," issue 118, published in 1960.
Publisher: Atelier Aime Maeght for Maeght Editeur
Biography
Russian painter, printmaker, and art theorist. Co-founder and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism. He came from a wealthy family of entrepreneurs in Moscow. Due to his father’s health issues, the family moved to Odessa. In 1886, the artist returned to Moscow to study law and economics. However, he never completed his thesis. In 1896, he left for Munich to study painting. The Academy of Fine Arts deemed his skills insufficient. He decided to study at Anton Ažbe’s drawing school. In 1900, he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studied under Franz von Stuck. In his statements, he compared painting to music, pointing out the kinship between sounds and colors. He claimed that he could speak through the pure expression of non-objective lines, forms, and colors. He is considered a precursor of Expressionist abstractionism. His works are part of the world’s most important collections, including those of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
