WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Lot 28
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Lot 28 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Scharf

signed with the monogram and dated ‘K 28’ (lower left); dated, inscribed, and numbered ‘No 253 1928 Scharf’ (on the artist’s mount)

gouache, watercolour, and pen and ink on paper

Sheet size: 19 1/4 x 12 3/4 in. (49 x 32.4 cm.)

Mount size: 19 5/8 x 13 1/4 in. (49.9 x 33.3 cm.)

Executed in May 1928





Provenance

Nina Kandinsky, Paris.

Galerie Maeght, Paris, by whom acquired from the above in 1957.

Galerie Chalette, New York, 1957.

Louis & Julia Wasserman, Connecticut, acquired in 1957.

Estate of Julia Wasserman.

Acquired from the above by the present owner.



Literature

The artist's handlist, Watercolours, 'v 1928, 253, Scharf'.

V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, London, 1994, no. 841, p. 205 (illustrated; with inverted dimensions).



Exhibited

Lucerne, Galerie Rosengart, Kandinsky Exhibition: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings, June - September 1953, no. 4.

New York, Galerie Chalette, Kandinsky, November - December 1957, no. 17 (illustrated).



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