WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Lot 51
11.05.2023 07:00UTC -05:00
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$ 1 500 000
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ID 949519
Lot 51 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
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$ 1 500 000 – 2 000 000
WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Ohne titel (Improvisation)

signed with monogram and dated '15' (lower left)

watercolor and brush and India ink on paper

13 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (34.5 x 23.5 cm.)

Painted in 1915





Provenance

Sarah Reed Blodgett, Portland, Oregon (by 1950).

By descent from the above to the present owner.



Literature

V.E. Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonné, 1900-1921, New York, 1992, vol. I, p. 353, no. 399 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Oregon, Portland Museum of Art, Collection of Sarah Reed Blodgett, April-May 1950.

Oregon, Portland Museum of Art, The Collection of Sarah Reed Blodgett of Portland, September-October 1965, no. 20.

New Orleans Museum of Art, German and Austrian Expressionism, November 1975-January 1976, p. 30, no. 26 (illustrated in color, p. 50; dated circa 1915).
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