ID 949579
Lot 422 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Estimate value
$ 180 000 – 250 000
Zweierbund
signed with monogram and dated '32' (lower left)
gouache and watercolor on paper laid down on board
19 3/8 x 24 1/8 in. (49.2 x 61.4 cm.)
Painted in May 1932
Provenance
Galka E. Scheyer, Los Angeles (1933).
Walter Maitland, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, 1940).
Anon. sale, Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 10 June 1987, lot 144.
Davlyn Gallery, New York.
Galería Theo, Madrid.
Fuji Gallery, Tokyo.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, July 1988.
Literature
V.E. Barnett, Kandinsky: Watercolours Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1994, vol. 2, p. 327, no. 1070 (illustrated).
V.E. Barnett, ed., The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World, Cologne, 1997, pp. 59 and 270 (illustrated, fig. 5).
Exhibited
Königsberg, Städtische Kunsthalle and Museum Danzig, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, June-October 1932.
Los Angeles Museum, The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, October 1933, no. 113 (titled Entente).
The Oakland Art Gallery, Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky: The "Old Master" of Abstract Art, January 1935.
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Wassily Kandinsky Memorial, March-May 1945, p. 112, no. 192 (titled Entente; with incorrect medium).
Tokyo, Fuji Gallery, July-August 1988.
| Artist: | Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) |
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| Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) |
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| Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
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