WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
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ID 1422987 
Lot 75  | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Estimate value
$ 800 000 – 1 200 000 
Trois ovales
signed with monogram and dated '42' (lower left); signed with monogram and dated again and numbered 'No 698 1942' (on the reverse)
oil and tempera on board
19 ¼ x 19 1/8 in. (49 x 48.7 cm.)
Painted in October 1942
Provenance
Nina Kandinsky, Paris (wife of the artist).
Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired from the above, circa 1968-1969).
Private collection (acquired from the above, 1971).
Davlyn Gallery, New York (by 1979, until at least 1985).
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, December 1991.
Literature
The Artist’s Handlist IV, no. 698.
W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, London, 1959, p. 391, no. 507 (illustrated).
H.K. Roethel and J.K. Benjamin, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1916-1944, London, 1984, vol. II, p. 1030, no. 1136 (illustrated).
J. Hahl-Koch, Kandinsky, Brussels, 1993, p. 379, no. 451 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Kandinsky: Parisian Period, 1934-1944, October-November 1969, p. 27, no. 38 (illustrated, p. 47).
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky: Gemälde 1900-1944, July-September 1970, no. 174 (illustrated).
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Kandinsky in Paris: 1934-1944, February-April 1985, p. 200, no. 143 (illustrated).
| Artist: | Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) | 
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| Applied technique: | Gouache | 
| Medium: | Board | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Place of origin: | Eastern Europe, Europe, Russia | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Artist: | Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) | 
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| Applied technique: | Gouache | 
| Medium: | Board | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Place of origin: | Eastern Europe, Europe, Russia | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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