# To Nina for Christmas by Wassily Kandinsky (1926) Canonical article: https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive/to-nina-for-christmas-wassily-kandinsky-1926 - **Painting:** To Nina for Christmas - **Artist:** Wassily Kandinsky - **Date:** 1926 - **Medium:** Oil on board - **Dimensions:** 32.8 cm × 44.6 cm - **Current location:** Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris - **Period:** Bauhaus period - **Culture:** Russian-born artist working in Germany and France A small 1926 oil on board by Wassily Kandinsky, recorded in the supplied source under an attributed title, To Nina for Christmas. The source gives us the title, artist, date and materials, but nothing that explains the composition as a Christmas scene. This short visit looks closely at that gap between the title and what the record actually supports. ## High-resolution image [To Nina for Christmas by Wassily Kandinsky (1926) | High-resolution image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky%2C_GAC.jpg) ## Artwork presentation record Artwork accent colour: #5A3610. Original-image hero position: 50% horizontal, 50% vertical. Decorative crops use the original artwork image; they are not technical examination images. ## Details to notice ### Artist monogram Detail ID: artist_monogram. The small lower-left monogram, apparently K 26, is the painting's identifying mark and links the work to Kandinsky's Bauhaus-period practice. Original-image crop (%): x 0.6, y 85.2, width 8, height 9.8. ### Mottled upper-left orb Detail ID: mottled_black_orb. A large dark sphere at the upper left, veined with red, blue, and gold, floats apart from the main axes like a dark planet and shows the fragmented paint surfaces. Original-image crop (%): x 5.5, y 1.2, width 14.499999999999998, height 19. ### Left triangular base Detail ID: left_triangular_base. A broad dark-gold triangle at the lower left, crossed by a narrow diagonal bar, anchors the composition and reveals the layered, scraped paint texture. Original-image crop (%): x 0, y 53, width 49, height 46. ## The story This is a small painting by Wassily Kandinsky, dated 1926, and the supplied record presents it under the title To Nina for Christmas. That title is the first thing most visitors will read, and it sounds like a story. The same record also calls it untitled in French, and says the Christmas title is attributed. So the name is a later or uncertain label, not a caption the painting itself explains. Evidence: documented. Source references: source-1. What we actually have is a composition of geometric forms, with cross, disc and crescent shapes set against a dark ground. Those are the elements the record describes. Notice how little the description gives us beyond that. There is no figure, no room and no evident narrative action named in the source. Evidence: observation. Source references: source-1. The painting is oil on board, made in 1926, while Kandinsky was working in his Bauhaus period. The record lists its genre as genre art, which usually points to scenes of ordinary life. Yet the source does not name any scene here. So the label sits awkwardly beside the abstract description we have been given. Evidence: documented. Source references: source-1. The reference to Christmas is really the only narrative or symbolic cue the supplied source offers. It does not explain the composition as a Christmas scene. In other words, the mismatch is useful: the title invites a gift and a festival, but the visible evidence stays geometric. The source does not offer the link between them, so we should not invent one. Evidence: interpretation. Source references: source-1. What can we say with confidence? This is a 1926 Kandinsky in which cross, disc and crescent shapes play across a dark ground, held under a title the record marks as attributed. That gap is the honest subject of this visit. The work is documented, but the meaning the title seems to promise is not, and a careful reading leaves it open. Evidence: interpretation. Source references: source-1. ## About the artist ### Wassily Kandinsky 1866 to 1944 Wassily Kandinsky was an avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866–1944). Their work is associated with Expressionism; Symbolism; Bauhaus. Their recorded places of work include Paris; Munich; Weimar; Rapallo; The Hague; Russia; Stockholm; Switzerland; Tunis. - **Born:** 1866 - **Died:** 1944 - **Nationality:** Russian Empire; Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic; Soviet Union; France; Germany - **Birthplace:** Moscow - **Died in:** Neuilly-sur-Seine ![Artist portrait of Wassily Kandinsky]() Artist portrait. Image credit: 未知上傳者. [Image source](). [Licence: Public domain](). - [Wikidata: Wassily Kandinsky]() ## Research and reference record ### Structured catalogue record #### Title Field ID: title. To Nina for Christmas Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] #### Artist or attribution Field ID: artist. Wassily Kandinsky Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] #### Object date Field ID: date. 1926 Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] #### Medium and support Field ID: medium. Oil on board Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] #### Dimensions Field ID: dimensions. 32.8 cm × 44.6 cm Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] #### Current collection or location Field ID: location. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] #### Movement or period Field ID: period. Bauhaus period Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Country or culture Field ID: culture. Russian-born artist working in Germany and France Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Depicted subject Field ID: subject-summary. Non-narrative genre painting, a composition of geometric forms with cross, disc and crescent shapes on a dark ground, painted in 1926 and titled as a Christmas gift to Nina. Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Title variants Field ID: title-variants. À Nina pour Noël; À Nina pour Noël (Sans titre) Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Attribution qualification Field ID: attribution-qualification. The French description notes the title as attributed ('Titre attribué'), while the English listing presents it as the title. Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Accession number Field ID: accession-number. AM 81-65-51 Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] #### Support Field ID: support. Board Source IDs: none linked in the published record. ### Identity and catalogue Research section ID: catalogue. #### Title, attribution and date Claim ID: archive-ae6587e8b8bae15fbe73. Evidence: documented. The object is catalogued under the title 'To Nina for Christmas', given in French as 'À Nina pour Noël', but the French description marks the name as an attributed title ('Titre attribué'). The same description records the work as 'Sans titre', so the catalogue itself presents two title states: an untitled designation and an attributed dedicatory name. This distinction should govern how the title is used. The Christmas and gift references belong to the attributed label rather than to a title carried by the object, and the supplied record does not state who proposed that label or on what basis. The object is attributed to Wassily Kandinsky and is dated 1926, a date the record places alongside the attributed title without linking the two, so the naming history and the making date should be kept as separate facts. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Title field and French Description; French Description; Artist or creator field; Date field Claim ID: archive-84a26fdc02667942843e. Evidence: documented. The physical description is compact: oil on board, 32.8 cm high and 44.6 cm wide. Those dimensions place the work among Kandinsky's smaller supports, and the board rather than canvas is a material fact recorded by the source, not an inference from the image. The record assigns the work to the genre of genre art, a classification that ordinarily denotes scenes of everyday life. Nothing else in the supplied material identifies a scene, a setting or an action, so the genre label stands in the catalogue without an accompanying account of subject matter. The same caution applies to the attributed title's reference to Christmas: the source notes this is the only narrative or symbolic cue it provides, and it does not explain the composition as a Christmas scene or identify a depicted story. A reader should therefore treat the genre designation as catalogue information rather than as evidence that a legible narrative is present. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Dimensions field; Genre field; Title field and French Description #### Collection and documentation Claim ID: id-credit. Evidence: documented. Ownership is recorded through the Musée National d'Art Moderne, part of the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou in Paris, with the accession number AM 81-65-51. The record also points to an external museum record and to a Google Arts & Culture asset identifier (fAGpPFqIwBCkXA), but the excerpt supplied here does not reproduce the contents of that museum record. Any statement about provenance before the work entered the Paris collection, about its exhibition history, or about condition and treatment would exceed what these units establish. The accession number and holding institution are the documented extent of the collection information. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Source/Photographer and License fields Claim ID: archive-d93e197663d262a1a52c. Evidence: documented. The image was supplied by Google Art & Culture, and the source states that copyright in the underlying work is public domain. This concerns the reproduction and its rights status, not the date of the painting, which the record independently gives as 1926. Two kinds of dating are thus in play and should not be conflated: the date of the work's making and the later dates attached to its cataloguing, imaging and online publication through the museum record and the Google asset. Only the 1926 date is documented for the object itself; the catalogue and reproduction dates are not supplied in these units and should not be guessed. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Source/Photographer and License fields; Date field Claim ID: archive-48ba9103f9364dd50607. Evidence: interpretation. Taken together, the record fixes a secure core and leaves a deliberate margin. Secure are the attribution to Kandinsky, the 1926 date, the medium of oil on board, the dimensions, the Paris collection and the accession number. Uncertain or attributed are the dedicatory title and, in effect, the narrative expectations it raises, since the source marks the title as attributed and describes the work elsewhere as untitled. The catalogue's genre designation is likewise recorded without a described scene to support it. The identity of this object therefore rests on documented physical and institutional facts, while its name and its apparent subject remain qualified. Within a history of early twentieth-century abstract painting, that combination matters: it shows how a small, materially modest board can carry an attributed, human-sounding title that the documentary record itself declines to confirm, and it illustrates why catalogue qualifiers such as 'attributed title' and 'untitled' deserve to be preserved rather than resolved into a single confident caption. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Artist or creator field; Date field; Dimensions field; Genre field; Title field and French Description; French Description Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-1. Evidence: identity. The painting is titled 'To Nina for Christmas' (French: 'À Nina pour Noël'); the French description qualifies this as an attributed title ('Titre attribué'). Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-2. Evidence: identity. The artist is Wassily Kandinsky. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-3. Evidence: identity. The work is dated 1926. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-4. Evidence: identity. The dimensions are 32.8 cm in height and 44.6 cm in width. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-5. Evidence: identity. The work's genre is listed as genre art. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-6. Evidence: identity. The French description records the work as 'Sans titre' and notes that the title 'A Nina pour Noël' is attributed. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-7. Evidence: identity. The image was supplied by Google Art & Culture; the source states that the underlying work's copyright is public domain. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] ### Materials and technique Research section ID: materials. #### Materials and technique Claim ID: id-medium. Evidence: documented. The only material fact the supplied record states about the making of this work is its medium: it is oil on board. That single designation is documented in the Wikimedia Commons discovery record for the file 'To Nina for Christmas - Wassily Kandinsky, GAC.jpg', whose medium field is the sole evidence for the paint and support. The record also gives the object's dimensions, 32.8 cm in height by 44.6 cm in width, which belong to the same field of physical description and establish the work's small scale on a board support. No further physical specification is supplied: the record does not name a ground or primer, a panel type or wood, a varnish, a frame, or any added material. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Medium field Claim ID: id-medium-2. Evidence: documented. The account that can be built of materials and technique is therefore strictly coextensive with that medium field. The source is a discovery record, and its own annotation states that it supplies title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, genre, collection, accession number and image credit but does not explain subject matter, provenance or the interpretation of the composition. Nothing in the supplied evidence reports a technical examination of the board, such as a condition report, paint analysis, pigment identification, radiography or infrared imaging, and nothing reports a treatment history. Statements about how the paint was applied, whether thinly or heavily, whether the surface shows brushwork or palette-knife work, or how the ground was prepared would all fall outside what this unit establishes. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Medium field Claim ID: id-medium-3. Evidence: interpretation. The record's description of the composition as geometric forms, with cross, disc and crescent shapes set against a dark ground, belongs to the same source but is not a technical finding. The annotation is explicit that the record does not explain the subject matter or the composition's interpretation, and the file page's image was supplied through Google Art & Culture. What the source offers is a description of visible forms, not a layer analysis; the appearance of a dark ground in that description cannot be converted into a documented pigment, toned preparation or underpainting. The distinction matters here because the medium field is documented metadata, while the shapes against a dark ground are visual description, and only the former carries the authority of a recorded material fact. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Medium field Claim ID: legacy-reference-materials-technique-1. Evidence: materials_technique. The medium is oil on board. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] ### Interpretations and debates Research section ID: interpretation. #### The attributed title and the limits of the record Claim ID: id-title-reading. Evidence: interpretation. The only supplied evidence unit for this section is a single interpretation drawn from the Wikimedia Commons record for the object, and that unit's scope is deliberately narrow. It states that the title's reference to Christmas is the only narrative or symbolic cue the supplied source offers, and that the source excerpt does not explain the composition as a Christmas scene or identify any depicted story. The reading is therefore a statement about what the documentation does and does not contain, not a claim about what the painting depicts. The same source record, as reflected in its description of the file page, presents the work under the title To Nina for Christmas while the French description records it as untitled and marks the Christmas title as attributed; the interpretation unit should be read against that qualification rather than as an endorsement of the Christmas label as the work's own caption. No further interpretive evidence accompanies this section. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Title and Description fields Claim ID: id-title-reading-2. Evidence: interpretation. The interpretive consequence, offered here as a qualified synthesis rather than a documented claim, is that any account of the object's meaning has to keep two registers apart. One register is the title as the record transmits it, with its gift and festival connotations, which may belong to a dedication, a later labelling or a naming convention whose origin the excerpt does not supply. The other register is the composition itself, which the record's description does not gloss as a Christmas scene or attach to any identified story. Because the supplied evidence attributes the title and calls the work untitled in French, treating the Christmas reference as a description of subject matter would convert an uncertain label into a documented fact. A research account can note the invitation the title extends while leaving the link between title and image unresolved, which is what the available documentation supports. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Title and Description fields Claim ID: legacy-reference-interpretation-1. Evidence: interpretation. The title's reference to Christmas is the only narrative or symbolic cue provided by the supplied source; the excerpt itself does not explain the composition as a Christmas scene or identify a depicted story. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] ### Collection and display Research section ID: collection. #### Institutional record and accession Claim ID: archive-71bbbb2d00c4f05e6f9a. Evidence: documented. The object is recorded in the collections of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, the modern art museum within the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou in Paris. Its accession number is AM 81-65-51, and that number is the most stable institutional identifier available in the supplied record: it ties the work to a specific entry in a French national collection even though the excerpt does not reproduce the catalogue entry itself. The same record points outward to an external museum record and to a Google Arts & Culture asset identifier (fAGpPFqIwBCkXA), but the contents of the museum record are not given here. Those pointers should therefore be treated as leads to further documentation rather than as evidence in their own right. What the record establishes is where the work now belongs and how it is numbered, not how or when it entered the collection, since no provenance interval or acquisition date is supplied. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Collection field; Accession number field; References and Google Arts & Culture asset ID fields Claim ID: legacy-reference-collection-1. Evidence: collection. The painting belongs to the Musée National d'Art Moderne, part of the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-collection-2. Evidence: collection. The accession number is AM 81-65-51. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-collection-3. Evidence: collection. The supplied source lists an external museum record and a Google Arts & Culture asset identifier (fAGpPFqIwBCkXA) for this object, but does not provide the museum record's contents in the excerpt. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] ### Documented values and qualified estimates Research section ID: values. #### The working valuation Claim ID: valuation-calculated-insurance. Evidence: interpretation. The working insurance estimate attached to this record is a model-generated range of US$8M to US$14M, generated on 2026-10-30. Its stated methodology is a broad, conservative working range for manual review, not an appraisal. The basis uses only supplied confirmed context: Kandinsky, dated 1926 in the Bauhaus period, oil on board, 32.8 x 44.6 cm, held at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, accession AM 81-65-51, with the title recorded as attributed. Because no official museum value, insurance schedule, auction result or private sale record was supplied, the range is described as a model-derived order-of-magnitude estimate, intentionally wide to reflect medium confidence in identification, the attributed title and full museum collection status. The qualification is explicit: it is not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result or sale price, it does not reflect access to private insurance records, no comparable sales are claimed, and it should be replaced by a formal professional appraisal before any insurance decision. The estimate's breadth and its caveats are as much a part of the record as the figures themselves. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: valuation-calculated-insurance-2. Evidence: interpretation. Read together, the two accounts show how description and valuation depend on each other. The valuation methodology draws its inputs from the identification record: the artist, the 1926 date, the oil-on-board medium, the dimensions, the Paris collection and accession, and the attributed status of the title. The same uncertainty that qualifies the naming, namely that the title is recorded as attributed, is explicitly carried into the confidence assessment behind the range. The object's public museum status is likewise treated as a reason a stand-alone market calculation is inadequate. The valuation does not add independent information about the painting; it is a calculation layered on the documented facts, and it should be read that way. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-values-1. Evidence: calculated_insurance. Calculated working insurance estimate, not a sale price: Working insurance review range: US$8M to US$14M Recorded date: Working calculation, generated 2026-10-30. Methodology: Calculated as a broad, conservative working insurance range for manual review, not an appraisal. The basis uses only supplied confirmed context: Wassily Kandinsky, dated 1926 in the Bauhaus period, oil on board, 32.8 x 44.6 cm, held at the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, accession AM 81-65-51, with title recorded as attributed. Because no official museum value, insurance schedule, auction result, or private sale record was supplied, the range is a model-derived order-of-magnitude estimate. It is intentionally wide to reflect medium confidence in identification, the attributed title, and full museum collection status, which would normally require a formal appraisal rather than a stand-alone market calculation. Qualification: This is a model-generated working range for manual review only. It is not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result, or sale price. It does not reflect access to private insurance records, and no comparable sales are claimed. The artwork is in a public museum collection and the title is recorded as attributed, so this range should be replaced by a formal professional appraisal before any insurance decision. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg) [source-1] ## Books for further reading Amazon links are paid links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ### Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus years, 1915-1933. Wassily Kandinsky, 1983. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Catalogue of Kandinsky works with listed subjects including Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, and catalogues raisonnés. Since the painting is held by the Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, this object-focused catalogue record is the most relevant candidate for the artist and the holding collection. Bibliography source ID: book-ol3188680m. ISBN: 0892070447 [Find book on Amazon.co.uk](https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=0892070447&tag=artifactarchi-21) Cover provenance: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3188680M ### Concerning the spiritual in art Wassily Kandinsky, 1977. Dover Publications Kandinsky's foundational writing on aesthetics and painting, listed under his name and themes of art and motive. It is relevant through the artist's own theoretical framing of non-objective painting, which bears on a geometric, non-narrative composition such as this one. Bibliography source ID: book-ol4891603m. ISBN: 0486234118 [Find book on Amazon.co.uk](https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=0486234118&tag=artifactarchi-21) Cover provenance: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4891603M ## Sources and literature ### [source-1] Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas Wikimedia Commons: To Nina for Christmas (n.d.). Wikimedia Commons file page: To Nina for Christmas - Wassily Kandinsky, GAC.jpg. Wikimedia Commons. Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg Publisher: Wikimedia Commons. Type: secondary. URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_Nina_for_Christmas_-_Wassily_Kandinsky,_GAC.jpg Authors / editors: Not recorded. Publication year: Not recorded. Publication / journal: Wikimedia Commons file page: To Nina for Christmas - Wassily Kandinsky, GAC.jpg Consultation status: partially_consulted. Access status: open_access. Relevance: artwork. Archive annotation: Discovery record only. Supplies title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, genre, collection, accession number and image credit for the work. Does not explain subject matter, provenance or interpretation of the composition. ### [book-ol3188680m] Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus years, 1915-1933. Wassily Kandinsky (1983). Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus years, 1915-1933. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. ISBN: 0892070447. Available at: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3188680M Publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Type: book. URL: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3188680M Authors / editors: Wassily Kandinsky. Publication year: 1983. ISBN: 0892070447 Consultation status: not_yet_consulted. Archive annotation: Catalogue of Kandinsky works with listed subjects including Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, and catalogues raisonnés. Since the painting is held by the Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, this object-focused catalogue record is the most relevant candidate for the artist and the holding collection. ### [book-ol4891603m] Concerning the spiritual in art Wassily Kandinsky (1977). Concerning the spiritual in art. Dover Publications. ISBN: 0486234118. Available at: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4891603M Publisher: Dover Publications. Type: book. URL: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4891603M Authors / editors: Wassily Kandinsky. Publication year: 1977. ISBN: 0486234118 Consultation status: not_yet_consulted. Archive annotation: Kandinsky's foundational writing on aesthetics and painting, listed under his name and themes of art and motive. 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