WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Lot 59
19.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 1 800 000
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ID 1336282
Lot 59 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Estimate value
$ 1 800 000 – 2 500 000
WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Ensemble
signed with monogram and dated ‘34’ (lower left)
oil and watercolor on canvas
23 ¾ x 27 1/8 in. (60.3 x 68.8 cm.)
Painted in April 1934




Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris (by 1972).
Davlyn Gallery, New York (by 1985).
Acquired by the family of the present owner, circa 1990.



Literature

The Artist's Handlist IV, no. 599.
C. Zervos, "Notes sur Kandinsky: A propos de sa récente exposition à la Galerie des 'Cahiers d'Art'" in Cahiers d'art, vol. 9, nos. 5-8, 1934, pp. 151 and 156 (illustrated, p. 151, fig. 3).
W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, New York, 1958, pp. 334 and 385, no. 435 (illustrated, p. 385).
H.K. Roethel and J.K. Benjamin, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1916-1944, London, 1984, vol. 2, p. 935, no. 1036 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Paris, Cahiers d'Art, Wassily Kandinsky, May 1934.
Lucerne, Galerie Rosengart, Kandinsky: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, June-September 1953, no. 9.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Kandinsky: Parisian Period, 1934-1944, October-November 1969, pp. 26 and 29, no. 2 (illustrated, p. 29).
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky: Gemälde 1900-1944, July-September 1970, no. 131 (illustrated).
Zurich, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky, April 1972, no. 44.
Paris, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Hommage de Paris à Kandinsky: La conquete de l'abstraction, l'époque Parisienne, June-July 1972, pp. 14 and 64, no. 18 (illustrated, p. 14).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Kandinsky in Paris: 1934-1944, February-April 1985, p. 109, no. 24 (illustrated).
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