WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Lot 354
30.06.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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£ 120 000
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ID 990394
Lot 354 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Ohne Titel

signed with the monogram and dated '30' (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed 'Dem verehrten, lieben Herrn Kirchhoff Herzliche Glückwünsche zu 1931 Kandinsky' (on the artist’s mount)

watercolour and pen and India ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount

sheet: 9 1/4 x 6 7/8 in. (23.5 x 17.5 cm.)

artist's mount: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.8 x 21.5 cm.)

Executed in 1930





Provenance

Heinrich Kirchhoff, Wiesbaden, a gift from the artist, by 1931.

Private collection, United States, by at least 1981.

Anonymous sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 9 June 1984, lot 813.

Anonymous sale, Christie’s, New York, 7 May 2008, lot 172.

Anonymous sale, Grisebach, Berlin, 26 November 2015, lot 41.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

V.E. Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, London, 1994, no. 1005, p. 294 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, Der Garten der Avantgarde, Heinrich Kirchhoff: Ein Sammler von Jawlensky, Klee, Nolde…, October 2017 - February 2018, p. 362 (illustrated).



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