id: 156574 accession number: 1992.280 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.280 updated: 2023-04-01 11:07:50.960000 Watercolor No. 10, 1911–12. Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944). Watercolor; sheet: 33.3 x 31 cm (13 1/8 x 12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Lockwood Thompson 1992.280 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Watercolor No. 10 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1911–12 creation date earliest: 1906 creation date latest: 1917 current location: creditline: Bequest of Lockwood Thompson copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: Russia, 20th century technique: watercolor department: Drawings collection: DR - Russian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 33.3 x 31 cm (13 1/8 x 12 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Selected Acquisitions opening date: 1993-02-09T05:00:00 Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993). title: Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper opening date: 2018-01-14T05:00:00 Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Michael E. Sadler, Oxford, UK (1912-late 1930s or 1940s) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Working in Munich during 1911–12, Russian émigré Vassily Kandinsky wrote the treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art, which established that a work of art could be totally abstract and devoid of a representational concept yet still express emotions. According to the artist, the image should develop first in the inner mind, or subconscious, and then in pictorial form. This is exemplified here in the bird surrounded by abstract forms. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES