Three Elements
{{Short description|1925 painting by Wassily Kandinsky}}
{{Infobox artwork
| title = Three Elements
| other_language_1 = German
| other_title_1 = Drei Elemente
| other_language_2 = French
| other_title_2 = Trois éléments
| wikidata = Q47512127
| image = Kandinsky - Drei Elemente (1925).jpg
| image_upright = 1
| artist = Wassily Kandinsky
| year = 1925
| catalogue = 295
| subject = a red square, a yellow triangle and a blue circle among coulours and shapes
| medium = oil painting on cardboard
| movement = Abstract art
| height_metric = 68
| width_metric = 48
| dimensions = also given as 69.5 × 49.5 cm (27.4 × 19.5 in)
| dimensions_ref = {{cite book |last1=Fourneaux |first1=Hélène |title=Les collections du musée d'art moderne et contemporain de la ville de Strasbourg |date=February 2008 |publisher=Musées de la ville de Strasbourg |location=Strasbourg |isbn=978-2-901833-82-6 |page=111}}{{cite book |last1=Derouet |first1=Christian |last2=Lehni |first2=Nadine |title=JEANNE BUCHER Une galerie d'avant-garde 1925–1946 |date=1994 |publisher=Éditions d'art Albert Skira / Musées de la ville de Strasbourg |location=Geneva / Strasbourg |isbn=2-605-00272-1 |page=183}}
| metric_unit = cm
| museum = Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain
| city = 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.{{cite web |title=Drei Elemente (Trois éléments) |url=https://www.navigart.fr/mamcs/artwork/250000000009177?note=undefined |website=navigart.fr/mamcs |accessdate=3 September 2020}}{{cite book |title=Description sommaire du fonds " Alexandre Kojève " au département des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de France |url=https://books.openedition.org/editionsbnf/394?lang=fr |via=books.openedition.org | series=Conférences et Études | date=19 March 2014 | pages=133–134 |publisher=Éditions de la Bibliothèque nationale de France | isbn=9782717725957 |accessdate=3 September 2020}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/-uvre-mamcs/-/entity/id/220116 Drei Elemente]{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} on the museum's website
- {{Commons category-inline|Three Elements - Wassily Kandinsky}}
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Category:Paintings in the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Category:Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky
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