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Article
The Tunisian sources of Kandinsky’s ‘Improvisation on mahogany’
09/2017 | 1374 | 159
Pages: 714-719
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Author:
Christensen, Emily (Christensen, Emily)
Subjects
artists:
Münter, Gabriele
artists:
Kandinsky, Wassily
dates:
1900-1919
places:
Tunisia
styles:
Abstract art
styles:
Dating
subjects:
Spirituality
subjects:
Islamic architecture
subjects:
Orientalism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
34. Improvisation of mahogany by Vasily Kandinsky. 1910 (here dated 1909). (Courtauld Gallery, London, on loan from Fridart Foundation, Geneva)
Attributed works:
35. Study for Improvisation on mahogany, from Sketchbook 27, by Vasiy Kandinsky, c. 1908–10 (here dated 1909). (Lenbachhaus, Munich)
Attributed works:
36. Detail of a study for Improvisation 1, from Sketchbook 27, by Vasily Kandinsky. c. 1908-10 (here dated 1909). (Lenbachhaus, Munich)
Attributed works:
37. Improvisation 6, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1909 (Lenbachhaus, Munich)
Attributed works:
38. Detail of Studies for Improvisation 6, from Sketchbook 27, by Vasily Kandinsky. c. 1908-10 (Lenbachhaus, Munich)
Attributed works:
39. Oriental, by Vasily Kandinsky. 19009 (Lenbachhaus, Munich)
Attributed works:
40. Ottoman cemetery, Tunisia, photograph by Gabriele Münter. 1905 (Lenbachhaus, Munich)
Attributed works:
41. Sketches of male and female figures, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1905 (Lenbachhaus, Munich)
Attributed works:
42. Three men in elegant clothes in front of a café, photograph by Gabriele Münter. 1905 (Lenbachhaus, Munich)
Attributed works:
43. Tunis street (Tombs of the Beys), by Vasily Kandinsky. 1905 (Centre Pompidou, Paris)
Book Review
Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia, by Roger Benjamin, with Cristina Ashjian
08/2016 | 1361 | 158
Pages: 652-653
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Reviewer:
Rummens, Maurice (Rummens, Maurice)
Subjects
artists:
Kandinsky, Wassily / Klee, Paul
dates:
1910-1919
places:
Tunisia
subjects:
Travel accounts
Illustrations
Attributed works:
50. View toward the harbour of Hammamet, by Paul Klee. 1914 (Private collection, Bern)
Publication Received
The Journey to Tunisia, 1914: Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moilliet. Edited by the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
09/2015 | 1350 | 157
Pages: 471
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Reviewer:
Watling, Lucy (Watling, Lucy)
Subjects
artists:
Klee, Paul / Moilliet, Louis René / Macke, August
dates:
2010-2019 / 1910-1919
museums and institutions:
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
places:
Tunisia
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Travel accounts
Publication Received
Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt
11/2009 | 1280 | 151
Pages: 788
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Reviewer:
Stanley, Tim (Stanley, Tim)
Subjects
dates:
0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199
places:
Tunisia / Egypt / Cairo / Syria
places:
Mahdia
print:
Islamic art
subjects:
Islamic art / Islamic / Architecture / Fatimid School
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt | author: Bloom, Jonathan M.
Article
The Earliest Dated Islamic Textiles
04/1932 | 349 | 60
Pages: 185-187+191
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Author:
Guest, Rhuvon (Guest, Rhuvon; Guest, R.)
Author:
Kendrick, A. F. (Kendrick, A. F.; K., A. F.; K., A.; Kendrick, Albert Frank)
Subjects
dates:
0900-0999 / 1000-1099
dates:
0800-0899
dates:
0700-0799
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Great Britain
places:
Persia / Mesopotamia (historical region)
places:
Baghdad
places:
Tunisia / Mesopotamia (historical region)
subjects:
Islamic / Textiles / Dating
subjects:
Silk stuffs / Muslim / Iconography
subjects:
Royalty / Patronage / Abbasid
subjects:
Tunisian / Mesopotamian
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
A-Silk Textile from Saint Josse sur Mer; Khurâsân, E. Persia, tenth century (Louvre). B-Silk Fabric; North Africa, eighth century (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester). C-Border of B (Victoria and Albert Museum). D-Silk tunic; probably woven at Baghdad. Tenth-Eleventh century (Textile Museum, Columbia, U. S. A.). The Earliest Dated Islamic Textiles
Book Review
Les Carreaux de Faience peints dans l'Afrique du Nord
11/1931 | 344 | 59
Pages: 254
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Reviewer:
Rackham, Bernard (Rackham, Bernard; R., B.; Rackham, B.; R.)
Subjects
places:
Algeria / Tunisia
subjects:
Ceramics / Maiolica / African
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Les Carreaux de Faience peints dans l'Afrique du Nord | author: Broussard, Général