Lot 48
  • 48

Wassily Kandinsky

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Wassily Kandinsky
  • ZEICHNUNG IN ROSA (DESSIN EN ROSE)
  • signé du monogramme et daté 27 (en bas à gauche)
  • aquarelle, lavis et encre sur papier

  • 34 x 22,9 cm; 13 3/8 x 9 in.

Provenance

Nina Kandinsky, Paris (jusqu'à la fin des années 1970)
Blue Rider Research Trust, Princeton NJ (vente : Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 23 octobre 1980, lot 334)
Acquis lors de cette vente par le propriétaire actuel

Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Oktober - Austellung: W. Kandinsky - Neue Aquarelle, 1928, no.10
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Aquarelle zeitgenössischer deutscher Künstler, 1928
New York, Kleemann Galleries, Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944, 1957, no. 1, reproduit
Paris, Galerie Karl Flinker, Kandinsky: 82 œuvres sur papier de 1902 à 1933, 1977, no. 16

Literature

Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné 1922-1944, Londres, 1994, vol. II, no. 793, illustré p. 166

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, laid down on paper. There are two white areas located toward the lower left and upper right corners, possibly intrincic to the artistic process. This work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed with the monogram 'K' and dated '27' (lower left), watercolour, wash and ink on paper. Executed in 1927.