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Wassily KANDINSKY (1866 - 1944)
Reiterweg, riding path
Original definitive state woodcut, printed in 1938, on pale cream paper, signed with the artist's monogram in the block Published and printed by Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Chroniques du Jour, Paris, in the review XXe siècle in 1938Size of the all plate : 31,8 cm x 24,5 cm - Size inside the mount: 24 cm x 21 cm. Framed size : 41 cm x 31 cm
Ref. Roethel 111 - Good condition : light vertical fold, few marginal defects, but superb inking. Nicely framed with an elegant steel black frame and black mount.
650 €
Descriptif
Second edition of the woodcut titled « Reiterweg » (original edition of the definitive state) printed under Kandinsky's supervision for his essay « Mes gravures sur bois » issued in XXe Siècle review, Paris, in 1938.
This very interesting woodcut, titled Reiterweg (plate in the collections of MOMA and Centre Pompidou), about an allegorical riding path, was one of the 56 woodcuts Kandinsky began in 1907, in fact the plate folio 24, originally created by Kandinsky for the album of 38 prose-poems Klänge he wrote between 1909 and 1911.
A Kandinsky’s musical album of woodcuts and poetry published in 1913, the year of Der Blaue Reiter movement. Klänge was a synaesthetic artistic project where woodcuts were not merely illustrative.
Reiterweg woodcut is probably the stronger of them and can be evoke Moses and Hebrew people making the crossing of an abstract Red Sea.
Our edition dated 1938, the original Kandinsky’s woodcuts edition in their definitive state, is usually given around 1200 (sometimes 2000), illustrating the Kandinsky’s essay « Mes gravures sur bois ».
Many of these impressions were destroyed during the war.
An edition supervised by Kandinsky and published and printed by Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Chroniques du Jour, Paris, in the review XXe siècle, offering the definitive state of Kandinsky’s woodcuts.