ID 1093251
Lot 17 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Estimate value
HKD 18 000 000 – 28 000 000
Dumpfes Rot
signed with the monogram and dated ‘K 27’ (lower left); signed again with the monogram, inscribed, dated and numbered ‘K "Dumpfes Rot" No. 400 1927’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
66 x 76 cm. (26 x 29 7⁄8 in.)
Painted in Dessau in June 1927
Provenance
Nina Kandinsky, Neuilly-sur-Seine, by descent from the artist, in 1944
Galerie René Drouin, Paris, acquired from the above, probably in the late 1940s
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Anonymous sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 17 May 1979, lot 281
Private collection, Switzerland
MacConnal-Mason Gallery, London
Private collection, United Kingdom, acquired from the above in 2010; sale, Christie's London, 1 March 2022, lot 45
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
The artist's handlist, vol. IV, no. 400.
W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, New York, 1959, no. 400, p. 336 (illustrated, fig. 264, p. 371).
A. Bovi, Kandinsky, London, 1970, no. 28, p.89 (illustrated).
H.K. Roethel & J.K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, 1916-1944, London, 1984, no. 843, p. 781 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Kandinsky, December 1947 - January 1948, no. 43, n.p.; this exhibition later travelled to The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, February - March 1948.
Paris, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky: Bauhaus de Dessau, 1927-1933, November 1965, no. 5 (illustrated; exh. cat. reproduced in Derriere le Miroir, no. 154, November 1965).
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Kandinsky, The Bauhaus Years, April - May 1966, no. 23 (illustrated).
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Kandinsky: Centenaire, 1866-1944, July - September 1966, no. 51 (illustrated).
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky, Gemälde 1900-1944, July - September 1970, no. 78 (illustrated).
| Artist: | Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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