WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

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Lot 45 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Dumpfes Rot

signed with the monogram and dated ‘K 27’ (lower left); signed again with the monogram, inscribed, dated and numbered ‘K "Dumpfes Rot" No. 400 1927’ (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

25 7⁄8 x 30 in. (65.7 x 76.3 cm.)

Painted in Dessau in June 1927







Provenance

Nina Kandinsky, Neuilly-sur-Seine, by descent from the artist, in 1944.

Galerie René Drouin, Paris, by whom acquired from the above, probably in the late 1940s.

Galerie Maeght, Paris.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 17 May 1979, lot 281.

Private collection, Switzerland.

MacConnal-Mason Gallery, London.

Private collection, United Kingdom, by whom acquired from the above in 2010.







Literature

The artist's handlist, vol. IV, no. 400.

W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, New York, 1959, no. 400, p. 336 (illustrated fig. 264, p. 371).

A. Bovi, Kandinsky, London, 1970, no. 28 (illustrated).

H.K. Roethel & J.K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, 1916-1944, London, 1984, no. 843, p. 781 (illustrated).





Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Kandinsky, December 1947 - January 1948, no. 43, n.p.; this exhibition later travelled to The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, February - March 1948.

Paris, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky: Bauhaus de Dessau, 1927-1933, November 1965, no. 5 (illustrated; exh. cat. reproduced in Derriere le Miroir, no. 154, November 1965).

New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Kandinsky, The Bauhaus Years, April - May 1966, no. 23 (illustrated).

Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Kandinsky: Centenaire, 1866-1944, July - September 1966, no. 51 (illustrated).

Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky, Gemälde 1900-1944, July - September 1970, no. 78 (illustrated).
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