WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Lot 468
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ID 717855
Lot 468 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Ohne Titel

signed with the monogram and dated '40' (lower left)

gouache on black paper

19 5⁄8 x 11 1⁄2 in. (49.7 x 29.4 cm.)

Executed in 1940







Provenance

Nina Kandinsky, Paris.

Galerie Maeght, Paris.

Mr. & Mrs. Michel Fribourg, New York.

Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, circa 1985.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 9 November 1995, lot 279.

Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.





Literature

The Artist's Handlist, Watercolours, no. '1940, 642'.

W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, New York, 1958, p. 232.

V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, catalogue raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, London, 1994, no. 1277, p. 483 (illustrated).





Exhibited

Paris, Galerie l'Esquisse, Etapes de l'œuvre de Wassily Kandinsky, November - December 1944.

Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Kandinsky, gouaches, aquarelles, dessins, February 1947, no. 55 (titled 'Gouache').

London, Gimpel Fils, Kandinsky, June 1950, no. 29 (titled 'Gouache (no. 642)').





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