Kleine Welten I. 1922.
Lithograph in colors.
Signed. Monogrammed and dated in the stone. From an edition of 200 copies. On laid paper. 24.7 x 21.6 cm (9.7 x 8.5 in). Sheet: 30,7 x 25,8 cm (12 x 10,2 in).
[SM].
• From Kandinsky's most famous graphic cycle.
• "I made all the plates and stones myself, all the prints were printed under my constant supervision [..]. So: the whole execution is first class" (Kandinsky to Galka Scheyer, May 4, 1932, quoted from: Roethel, Kandinsky. Das graphische Werk, Cologne 1970, p. 452).
• The works for "Small Worlds" are pivotal in Kandinsky's oeuvre and mark the turn towards a strictly geometric-abstract approach to form.

PROVENANCE: Konrad Diepolder, Moderne Graphik, Munich.
Corporate Collection Ahlers AG, Herford (since 1973, acquired from the above).

LITERATURE: Hans Konrad Roethel, Kandinsky. Das graphische Werk, Cologne 1970, cat. no. 164.