(Moscow 1866–1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine)
Zeichnung für Punkt und Linie zu Fläche (Drawing for point and line to surface), 1925, signed and dated K/25; inscribed on the reverse 1925/N2/Aus “Punkt und Linie zu Fläche”, Indian ink on paper mounted on cardboard, 34.5 x 22.5 cm, framed, (AR)

Provenance:
acquired from the artist Galleria del Milione, Milan, no. 380 (label on the reverse), until 9 September 1942
Luigi Rognoni, Milan, 1942–1986
Galleria Arte Centro, Milan, no. 9208 (label and stamp on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Berlin, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Sonderausstellung W. Kandinsky: Zeichnungen 1910–1931/Neue Aquarelle/Grafik (travelled in reduced format to: Saarbrücken, Staatliches Museum), 1932
Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, Wassily Kandinsky, Karl Hofer, Gerhard Marcks, 12 November–7 December 1932; Milan, Galleria del Milione, Kandinsky, 24 April–9 May 1934
Milan, Arte Centro, La Kunstkammer di Luigi Rognoni, 13 November–7 December 1985

Literature:
Wassily Kandinsky, Punkt und Linie zu Fläche, 1926, p. 159, no. 9 with ill.;
Wassily Kandinsky, Punto, Linea, Superficie, 1968, Adelphi, p. 184 with ill.;
Ringbom, Sixten, The Sounding Cosmos: A Study in the Spiritualism of Kandinsky and the Genesis of Abstract Painting, ill. no. 110;
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings. Catalogue Raisonné, Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2006–2007, vol. I, p. 296, no. 612 with ill.

Note:
This drawing was illustrated in the Appendix to “Punkt und Linien zu Fläche” with the caption: Die dünnen Linien halten Stand vor dem schweren Punkt (the thin lines resist the heavy point).

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for color, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential. (Wassily Kandinsky)