Wassily Kandinsky

Lithograph printed in colors, 1922, signed in pencil, from the total edition of 230, on wove paper, published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin, with full margins, in good condition except the colors slightly faded, pale traces of light-stain, traces of mat stain and adhesive remains at the sheet corners, verso

The print has been treated by a conservator and the sheet looks quite clean. There are remaining traces of time stain at the extreme sheet edges.
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provenance
Nierendorf Gallery, New York
Nika Pleshkova Thayer
By descent to the present owner from the above

Born in 1919 in Vladiovostock, Russia, Nika Pleshkova Thayer escaped The Revolution with her father, an Aide de Camp to Tsar Nicholas II, and mother, eventually settling in Connecticut by way of China and California. She received a Master of Arts degree from Yale University in 1943 and, fluent in Russian, Mrs. Thayer served in the Signal Corps in Washington DC as a code breaker and would later work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the Department of Theater Arts. She was an active community member and avid volunteer, serving on the boards of local museums, clubs, and charities and never lost touch with her mother country. For fifteen years, she contributed to Radio Liberty in New York which gave Russian citizens access to international news and worked closely with the Thayer-Townsend foundation, which gave Russian children, particularly orphans, health care, education and vocational training.