''Three Elements'' is a
March 1925 abstract painting
Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...
by the Russian artist
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in ...
.
History
Kandinsky presented it to his nephew
Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève (born Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kozhevnikov; 28 April 1902 – 4 June 1968) was a Russian-born French philosopher and international civil service, civil servant whose philosophical seminars had some influence on 20th-century Frenc ...
, 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
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, France. Its inventory number is 55.002.3.1.
See also
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List of paintings by Wassily Kandinsky
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1925 in art
References
External links
''Drei Elemente''on the museum's website
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Paintings in the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky
1925 paintings
Oil paintings
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