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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1886-1944)

Lot 361
30.06.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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ID 990500
Lot 361 | WASSILY KANDINSKY (1886-1944)
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£ 120 000 – 180 000
WASSILY KANDINSKY (1886-1944)

Fast versunken

signed with the monogram and dated '30' (lower left); dated, numbered and inscribed 'No 383 1930 Fast versunken.' (on the reverse)

gouache on dark grey-brown paper laid down on the artist's mount

sheet: 14 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (36.4 x 27 cm.)

artist's mount: 18 3/8 x 14 1/2 in. (46.7 x 36.8 cm.)

Executed in March 1930





Provenance

Karl Nierendorf, New York, on consignment from the artist, by 1933 until circa 1948.

Nina Kandinsky [the artist's wife], Paris.

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (no. 7129), by whom acquired from the above in February 1972.

Dr P. Wurmser, Basel, by whom acquired from the above on 22 May 1974; sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 June 2008, lot 221.

Private collection, France, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, London, 19 June 2013, lot 107.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

The Artist's Handlist, Watercolours, as 'iii 1930, 383, Fast versunken'.

V.E. Barnett, Kandinsky, Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, London, 1994, no. 975, p. 280 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Kandinsky, February 1931, no. 20, n.p..

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Novemberausstellung, November - December 1931, no. 74, p. 11.

Stockholm, Gummesons Konsthall, Kandinsky, September 1932, no. 78.

New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Kandinsky: A Retrospective View, A College Art Association Exhibition, December 1937, no. 36, n.p..

New York, Museum of Non-Objective Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, In Memory of Wassily Kandinsky, March - May 1945, no. 162, p. 110 (titled 'Almost Disappearing' and incorrectly numbered '363').

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Kandinsky, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, June - July 1972, no. 47, p. 42 (illustrated).

Paris, Galerie Karl Flinker, Kandinsky: peintures, dessins, gravures, éditions, oeuvres inédites, November - December 1972, no. 6, n.p. (titled 'Presque Disparu').

New York, Pace Gallery, Kandinsky: Watercolors and Drawings, 1911-1943, March - April 1973, no. 13, n.p. (with incorrect medium).

Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kandinsky, Kleine Freuden, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, March - May 1992, no. 127, n.p. (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, May - August 1992.

Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Kandinsky nelle collezioni svizzere, June - October 1995, no. 51, p. 210 (illustrated).
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