Interpretation
Kandinsky taught art in Munich, where Gabriele Münter was one of his students. By 1903 a secret romance had developed between the married teacher and his pupil. When he took his students to the village of Kallmüntz to paint outdoors, Münter joined him; she remained his companion until 1914. This sketch from the summer of 1903 may be a document of their relationship. With Kallmüntz in the background, a lady in medieval dress walks on a stone parapet followed by a page. Although Kandinsky abandoned medieval subject matter for Expressionism and later became a pioneer of abstraction, he retained the proclivity for vivid colors already evident in this early sketch.
Information
- Title
- Promenade (Sketch)
- Object Number
- y1990-30
- Maker
- Vassily Kandinsky
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dates
- 1903
- Dimensions
- 50.8 x 70.5 cm (20 x 27 3/4 in.) frame: 70.5 × 90.5 × 8.5 cm (27 3/4 × 35 5/8 × 3 3/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Sophie Goldberg Bargmann and Valentine Bargmann
- Culture
- German
- Signatures
- Signed, bottom right: KANDINSKY
Dr. Zacharias Goldberg, Zürich; Mr. and Mrs. V. Bargmann, Princeton; 1990 bequest to Princeton University Art Museum.
- Kandinsky: Kollektiv-Ausstellung, 1902-1912, (Berlin: Verlag der Sturm, 1912)., no. 73 (1st. ed.); no. 64 (2nd ed.)
- Will Grohmann, Kandinsky: life and work, (London: Thames and Hudson, 1959)., p. 329; p. 349 (illus.), no. 1
- Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky: catalogue raisonne of the oil-paintings, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982-1984)., Vol. 1: p. 128, no. 107
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1990," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 50, no. 1 (1991): p. 16-69., p. 16, p. 19 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 211 (illus.)
- An Educated Eye: The Princeton University Art Museum Collection (Friday, February 22, 2008 - Sunday, June 15, 2008)
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