Three Elements

1925 painting by Wassily Kandinsky

Three Elements
German: Drei Elemente, French: Trois éléments

Artist	Wassily Kandinsky
Year	1925
Catalogue	295
Medium	oil painting on cardboard
Movement	Abstract art
Subject	a red square, a yellow triangle and a blue circle among coulours and shapes
Dimensions	68 cm × 48 cm (27 in × 19 in); also given as 69.5 × 49.5 cm (27.4 × 19.5 in)^[1]^[2]
Location	Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg
Accession	2002

Three Elements is a March 1925 abstract painting by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky.

History

Kandinsky presented it to his nephew Alexandre Kojève, in whose family it remained after Kojève's death in 1968. The painting was bought in 2002 from Kojève's widow, Nina Ivanoff (also spelled Ivanov) and is now in the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 55.002.3.1.^[3]^[4]

References

^ Fourneaux, Hélène (February 2008). Les collections du musée d'art moderne et contemporain de la ville de Strasbourg. Strasbourg: Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. p. 111. ISBN 978-2-901833-82-6.
^ Derouet, Christian; Lehni, Nadine (1994). JEANNE BUCHER Une galerie d'avant-garde 1925–1946. Geneva / Strasbourg: Éditions d'art Albert Skira / Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. p. 183. ISBN 2-605-00272-1.
^ "Drei Elemente (Trois éléments)". navigart.fr/mamcs. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
^ Description sommaire du fonds " Alexandre Kojève " au département des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Conférences et Études. Éditions de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. 19 March 2014. pp. 133–134. ISBN 9782717725957. Retrieved 3 September 2020 – via books.openedition.org.