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Xylographies: Title Page (The Flame)
Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944)
1909 (block cut 1907)
Medium/Technique
Heliogravure
Dimensions
Sheet: 32 x 32 cm (12 13/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Alan and Marianne Schwartz (Shapero Foundation)
Accession Number2002.16.2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints – Portfolios
Catalogue Raisonné
Roethel 066, and p.437-38
DescriptionTitle page with heliogravure vignette, from the portfolio of five heliogravures printed in black reproducing woodcuts by Kandinsky with two additional woodcut vignettes machine printed from the blocks on front and back portfolio cover
ProvenanceSims Reed Rare Books, London; Ars Libri, Boston, March 2001; purchased by MFA January 23, 2002