ID 990394
Lot 354 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
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).
Special Notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
| Artist: | Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor Crayon |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor Crayon |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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