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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Lot 11
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Lot 11 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Estimate value
£ 10 500 000 – 15 500 000
WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Le rond rouge
signed with the monogram and dated ‘39’ (lower left); signed again with the monogram, dated and numbered ‘No. 661 1939’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
35 x 45 ¾ in. (89.1 x 116.1cm.)
Painted in April 1939




Provenance

Nina Kandinsky, Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Galerie Maeght, Paris, by whom acquired from the above in December 1957.
Gustav Zumsteg, Zurich, by whom acquired from the above on 14 June 1961; his sale, Christie's, London, 6 April 1976, lot E.
Davlyn Gallery, New York [David Nahmad], by whom acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired circa 1980 and until 1996.
Fridart Foundation, Amsterdam, by whom acquired in 1996; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 2018, lot 4.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

The artist's handlist IV, no. 661.
W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, London, 1959, no. 661, p. 341 (illustrated p. 313).
P. Overy, Kandinsky, The Language of the Eye, London, 1969, pp. 176 & 185 (illustrated p. 177).
H.K. Roethel & J.K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil-Paintings, vol. II, 1916-1944, London, 1984, no. 1099, p. 992 (illustrated).
J. Freeman, The Fridart Collection, Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Modern Masterworks, London, 1998, pp. 132 & 133 (illustrated p. 132).
The Courtauld Institute of Art, The 20th Century at the Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, 2002, p. 58 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie René Drouin, 40 Peintures de Kandinsky, March - April 1946, no. 19.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, September - October 1946, no. 89, p. 13.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Kandinsky, December 1947 - January 1948, no. 82; this exhibition later travelled to The Hague, Gemeente Museum, February - March 1948.
Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Kandinsky, Époque Parisienne 1934-1944, June - July 1949, no. 34.
Paris, J. & H. Bernheim-Jeune, Rythmes et couleurs, December 1950 - January 1951, no. 14.
Bern, Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky, March - May 1955, no. 93.
Lausanne, Palais de Beaulieu, Chefs-d'oeuvre des Collections Suisses, de Manet à Picasso, May - October 1964, no. 323 (illustrated).
Zurich, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky, April 1972, no. 58.
Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Hommage de Paris à Kandinsky, La conquête de l'abstraction, l'époque Parisienne, June - July 1972, no. 43, p. 68 (illustrated p. 32).
Venice, XLII Esposizione lnternazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Arte e Scienza, June - September 1986, p. 159 (illustrated p. 183).
Verona, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Palazzo Forti, Vasilij Kandinskij, July - November 1993, no. 86, p. 263 (illustrated p. 184).
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Wassily Kandinsky, The Color of Abstraction, September - December 1999, p. 63 (illustrated p. 62).
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Wassily Kandinsky, Rétrospective, July - October 2001, no. 106, p. 214 (illustrated p. 215).
London, The Courtauld Gallery, 2002 - 2018, on long-term loan.
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