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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Lot 283
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Lot 283 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 20 000
WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Ohne Titel

signed with the monogram and dated '33' (lower left); dated and numbered '1933 No 15' (on the reverse)

pen and India ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount

sheet: 8 ½ x 14 3⁄8 in. (21.4 x 36.4 cm.)

artist's mount: 10 ¾ x 16 1⁄8 in. (27.4 x 41 cm.)

Executed in 1933





Provenance

Nina Kandinsky [the artist's wife], Paris, by descent from the artist.

Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, on consignment from the above.

Professor Gustav Stein, Cologne, by whom acquired from the above in August 1953.

Anonymous sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, 3 May 1961, lot 194.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 April 1964, lot 192.

Richard L. Feigen & Co., Chicago, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Harvey S. Lubitz, New York.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1970, lot 77.

H.B. Edwards, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1972, lot 40.

Edgardo Acosta Gallery, Beverly Hills, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Anonymous sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 26 November - 3 December 1972, lot 54.

Anonymous sale, Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 28 May 1979, lot 603.

Anonymous sale, Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 26 November 1979, lot 891.

Giorgio Manzardo, Rome, by 1979; his sale, Finarte, Rome, 18 April 2002, lot 121.

Private collection, Italy, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, London, 21 June 2018, lot 103.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

The Artist's Handlist, 1933, no. 15.

V.E. Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Individual Drawings, Munich, 2006, no. 894, p. 428 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Milan, Galleria del Milione, Kandinsky, April - May 1934.

Lucerne, Galerie Rosengart, Kandinsky Exhibition: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings, June - September 1953 (no cat.).

Zurich, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Wassily Kandinsky: Zeichnungen 1910-1944, November - December 1978, no. 39, n.p. (illustrated).

Rome, Galleria Giulia, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, December 1982 - January 1983, no. 7, p. 20 (illustrated p.19).
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