Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Vivian Endicott Barnet has noted that this drawing is known from a photograph which Nina Kandinsky inscribed 'Dessin N3-1913 Col. N.K. Paris' and from notes Hans Roethel made when he saw the work in Paris in the early 1970s. The motif relates to Improvisations 33 and especially 34 (Roethel & Benjamin, nos. 461, 469).