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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Lot 36
18.05.2026 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 36 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Estimate value
$ 6 000 000 – 8 000 000
WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Morgenstunde
distemper and gouache on canvas
38 ¼ x 51 ¼ in. (97 x 130 cm.)
Painted in 1907




Provenance

Galerie der Sturm, Berlin (1912, until at least 1924).
Theodor Ahrenberg, Stockholm and Chexbres; sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 4 December 1968, lot 79.
Hallsborough Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale).
Fischer Fine Art, Ltd., London (June 1972).
Benedek Fine Art, New York (1973).
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 7 November 1979, lot 558.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.



Literature

The Artist’s Handlist I, no. 48.
Galerie der Sturm, ed., Kandinsky: 1901-1913, Berlin, 1913, p. 33 (illustrated; dated 1906 and titled Frühe Stunde; with incorrect dimensions).
M. Deri, Die Malerei im XIX. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1919, vol. I, p. 289 (dated 1904 and titled Das Abendgebet; illustrated, vol. II, p. 85).
K. Brisch, Wassily Kandinsky untersuchungen zur Entstehung der gegenstandslosen Malerei an seinem werk von 1900-1921, Ph.D. Diss., University of Bonn, 1955, p. 144, no. 55.
W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, New York, 1958, p. 330, no. 48 (with incorrect dimensions).
R.-C. Long, Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style, New York, 1980, no. 141 (illustrated; dated circa 1906).
P. Weiss, Kandinsky in Munich: 1896-1914, exh. cat., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1982, p. 20 (dated circa 1906).
J. Fineberg, Kandinsky in Paris, Ann Arbor, 1984, pp. 54 and 82.
P. Weiss, Kandinsky and Old Russia, New Haven, 1995, p. 189 (dated 1907).
V.E. Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1992, vol. I, p. 1992, no. 221 (illustrated).
M. Moeller, ed., Der Frühe Kandinsky: 1900-1910, exh. cat., Brücke-Museum, Munich, 1994, p. 64 (illustrated in color, p. 56, pl. 2).



Exhibited

Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d'automne, 5e exposition, October 1907, p. 119, no. 932 (titled Petit matin).
Berlin, Galerie der Sturm, Kandinsky: Kollektiv-Ausstellung, 1902-1912, October 1912, no. 43.
London, Fischer Fine Art, Ltd., A Journey into the Universe of Art, June-July 1972, no. 26 (illustrated in color; titled Frühe Stunde).
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, From Kandinsky to Dix: Paintings of the German Expressionists, November-December 1989, p. 106 (illustrated in color, p. 107).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, German Expressionist Paintings from the Saltzman Family Collection, November 2001-March 2002 (illustrated in color, fig. 6).
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