ID 949519
Lot 51 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 000 000
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).
| Artist: | Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) |
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| Art style: | Expressionism |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Germany, Europe, Russia |
| Artist: | Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) |
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| Art style: | Expressionism |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Germany, Europe, Russia |
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