Zunehmen

Artist Vassily Kandinsky Russian, 1866–1944, active in Germany and France

Date1933

MediumOil, egg tempera, and ink on paper

Dimensions20 1/16 x 12 3/8 in. (51 x 31.4 cm)
Frame: 27 1/4 x 19 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (69.2 x 50.2 x 3.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.65.10.29

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCollection of the artist [1a]; consigned to J. B. Neumann, New York, by November 15, 1935 [1b]; consigned to Nierendorf Gallery (1937-1947), New York, between February 29, 1936 and 1947 [2]; W. R. Valentiner, Los Angeles, CA, by August 27, 1954 [3]; Valentiner Estate, Raleigh, NC, 1958 [4]; to NCMA, by bequest, 1965.

[1a] The Milan and Paris exhibitions are noted in Nina Kandinsky's notebooks, see catalogue raisonne introduction.
[1b] Neumann inventory 11/15/35, #16 "N 520, Accroissement." See also catalogue raisonne.
[2] Kandinsky changed dealers and Neumann sent inventory to Nierendorf. Neumann showed the work in February 1936. Nierendorf died in 1947. Nierendorf's last Kandinsky exhibition, however, was in 1944. See also catalogue raisonne.
[3] LACMA inventory, 8/27/54, #18 Kandinsky "Abstract."
[4] L.58.12.27-VE, "Zenehmen" (only work by Kandinsky listed).
Published ReferencesMasterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 152, illus. (b-w) 225, fig. 152.

The Art Quarterly 26, no. 2 (Summer 1963), 275.

The W. R. Valentiner Memorial Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Detroit, MI: The J. L. Hudson Gallery, 1964), cat. no. 17.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), mentioned 10, listed 79, illus. (b-w) 65, fig. 29.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 130, illus. (b-w) 131.

The Blue Four and German Expressionism (exhibition catalogue) (Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1974), cat. no. 27, illus. 13, 36.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 268.

Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolors: Catalogue Raisonne, Vol. Two, 1922-1944 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), illus. (color) 357, fig. 1140, and (b-w) 376, fig. 1140. (German translation, not in Reference Library.)

North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), listed and illus. (b-w) 93.

Huston Paschal, entry for Zunehmen, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 221, illus. (color).

North Carolina Museum of Art Annual Report (1997-98), detail illus. (b-w) 21.

Frank Whitford, Kandinsky: Watercolours and other Works on Paper (exhibition catalogue) (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1999), cat. no. 122, illus. (color) 188.

Shelley Selim and Celia Bertoia, Bent, Cast, & Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia (exhibition catalogue) (Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Art Museum, 2015), illus. (color)Exhibition HistoryMilan, Galleria de Milione, April 24- May 9, 1934, cat. no. 520.

Paris, Galerie Cahiers d'art, "W. Kandinsky: nouvelles toiles, aquarelles, dessins," June 21-September 10, 1935.

New York, J. B. Neumann's New Art Circle, "Vasily Kandinsky," February 1-29, 1936, no. 7 (as watercolor, Growing).

(possibly) London, Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd., 'Abstract and Concrete: Art International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1934 and 1935," April 1936, cat. (see label).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 152, illus. (b-w).

Detroit, MI, J.L Hudson Gallery, "The W. R. Valentiner Memorial Exhibition," November 18, 1963-January 2, 1964, cat. no. 17.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 130, illus. (b-w) 131.

Allentown, PA, Allentown Art Museum, "The Blue Four and German Expressionism," March 10-April 21, 1974, cat. no. 27, illus. 13 and 36.

Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art, March 11-April 13, 1975.

Winston-Salem, NC, Wake Forest University, "German Expressionist Works," February 15-March 15, 1979.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "German Works on Paper," October 20, 1983-January 15, 1984.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The Legacy of W. R. Valentiner," January 27-March 29, 1998.

London, England, Royal Academy of Arts, "Kandinsky: Watercolours and other Works on Paper," April 14-July 4, 1999, cat. no. 122, illus. (color) 188.
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