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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Lot 17
28.11.2023 19:00UTC +08:00
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ID 1093251
Lot 17 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

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)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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