Vasily Kandinsky
Sketch 160A

ArtistRussian, 1866–1944
CultureRussian
Titles
  • Sketch 160A
Date1912
PlaceGermany
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 37 3/8 × 42 1/2 in. (94.9 × 108 cm)
Frame: 46 1/4 × 52 × 3 3/8 in. (117.5 × 132.1 × 8.6 cm)
Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck
Object number74.140
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
223 Beck Galleries
On view

Explore Further

Object Type
ProvenanceHeer Collection, Zurich; [Galerie Maeght, Paris]; Mrs. Bertram Smith, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Daved E. Bright, Beverly Hills; [Galerie Heinz Berggruen, Paris]; Mr. and Mrs. John A. Beck, Houston, 1969; given to MFAH, 1974.
Exhibition HistoryKunsthalle, Bern, 1955.

"Kandinsky: the Road to Abstraction," Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London, April–May 1961.

"Vasily Kandinsky, 1866-1944: A Retrospective Exhibition," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris; Gemeente-museum/Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, 1963.

"U. S. Loan Exhibition," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1971–73.

"The Collection of John A. and Audrey Jones Beck," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1974.

"1912: The Breakup of Tradition," Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada, August 6–October 4, 1987.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed and dated lower left: Kandinsky 1912
View this object in The Beck Collection

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Blau (Blue)
Vasily Kandinsky
1922
Lithograph in colors on wove paper, edition 74/100
39.106
Kleinen Welten I (Little Worlds I)
Vasily Kandinsky
1922
Lithograph in colors
39.107
The Rocks
Vincent van Gogh
1888
Oil on canvas
74.139
Evening Memory I
Maurice Denis
1890
Oil on canvas
93.207
The Toilers of the Sea
Edouard Manet
1873
Oil on canvas
92.171
The Chicken
Chaïm Soutine
c. 1926
Oil on canvas
74.248
Terrace in the Garden near the Wannsee towards Northwest
Max Liebermann
1916
Oil on canvas
2009.549
Mademoiselle Boissière Knitting
Gustave Caillebotte
1877
Oil on canvas
98.272
The Orange Trees
Gustave Caillebotte
1878
Oil on canvas
98.273
Canal Saint-Martin
Georges Braque
1906
Oil on canvas
98.271
The Woman and the Roses
Marc Chagall
1929
Oil on canvas
98.275
Bottom of the Ravine
Paul Cezanne
c. 1879
Oil on canvas
98.274