Sunday (Old Russian) (sketch)

Sunday (Old Russian) (sketch), painted in 1904 and held at the Lenbachhaus, is the preparatory study for the finished Sunday (Old Russian) in Rotterdam's Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum. As a sketch, it reveals Kandinsky's working process—the initial establishment of composition, colour zones, and figure arrangement before the more finished execution. The existence of both sketch and finished work at different institutions provides valuable insight into how Kandinsky developed his symbolic figurative subjects from initial idea to completed painting.

Compared to the finished work, the sketch would show looser handling, less resolved colour, and possibly variant compositional choices that were modified in the final version. The Lenbachhaus's sketch allows direct comparison with the Rotterdam finished work, making it an important document for understanding Kandinsky's studio practice.