Kleine Welten VII. 1922.
Lithograph in colors.
Roethel 170. Signed. Monogrammed in the stone. One of 200 copies on this type of paper. On machine-made laid paper. 27,1 x 23,1 cm (10,6 x 9 in). Sheet: 36 x 28,2 cm (14,1 x 11,1 in).
Sheet 7 of the famous series "Kandinsky. Kleine Welten", which comprises a total of 12 sheets. Published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin. With truncated printer's note in left and horizontal strip of yellow and black stone in lower margin.

Looking back onto the year he was called to the Bauhaus, Kandinsky wrote to Galka Schreyer on 4 May, 1932: "I made all plates and stones myself, all proofs were printed under my permanent supervision - partly in the Bauhaus [..], some in an excellent printshop in Weimar [..]. The bookbinder was the famous Prof. Dorfner in Weimar. So, the whole execution is remarkable." (Translated quote after Hans Konrad Roethel, Kandinsky. Das graphische Werk, Cologne 1970, p. 452). In terms of technique, this sheet occupies yet another special position within the portfolio, as it has been composed as a woodcut in colors. With the "Kleinen Welten", by the way one of the artist's most famous creations on paper, Kandinsky makes his inner cosmos sound, because the proximity to music is clearly present in all of Kandinsky's abstract works.
Other copies are in possession of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Krefeld. [KP].