WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

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Lot 5 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Schwarze Begleitung
signed with the initial and dated 'K / 23' (lower left); dated, inscribed and numbered 'No 109 1923 ''Schwarze Begleitung''' (on the reverse of the artist's mount)
watercolour and India ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount
Sheet: 8 3/8 x 6 ¾ in. (21.4 x 17 cm.)
Mount: 13 ¾ x 12 in. (34.8 x 30.4 cm.)
Executed in December 1923




Provenance

Nina Kandinsky, Paris, by descent from the artist and until 1972.
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1972.
Galerie Berggruen et Cie., Paris, 1972-1973.
Galleria Galatea, Turin, 1973.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in February 1973.



Literature

The artist’s handlist, Watercolours, 'xii 1923, 109, Schwarze Begleitung'.
W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, London, 1959, no. 713, pp. 190, 347 & 408 (illustrated p. 408).
H.K. Roethel & J.K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, 1916-1944, London, 1984, p. 669 (the related oil painting illustrated).
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, London, 1994, no. 663, p. 91 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Zwickau, Zwickauer Kunstverein, Jubiläumsausstellung, November 1924.
Paris, Galerie Berggruen et Cie., Kandinsky: aquarelles & dessins, October 1972, no. 15 (illustrated; illustrated again as a plate).
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