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THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE: A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION
Auction Closed
July 28, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE: A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION
WASSILY KANDINSKY
1866 - 1944
MURNAU - SCHLOSS UND KIRCHE II
(MURNAU - CASTLE AND CHURCH II)
oil on board
33 by 44cm., 13 by 17⅜in.
Painted in 1909.
Karin Krabe, Hamburg
Konsul Max Leon Flemming, Hamburg (acquired by 1922)
Kunstsalon Maria Kunde, Hamburg
Sale: Kunstauktionshaus Lepke, Berlin, circa 1928
Ruth L. Achelis-Bezzel (purchased at the above sale)
Private Collection, Germany (by descent from the above. Sold: Sotheby’s, New York, 8th November 1995, lot 54)
Hans Ravenborg, Hamburg (purchased at the above sale. Sold: Christie’s, London, 8th October 1998, lot 31)
Purchased at the above sale
P.E. Küpper, ‘Die Sammlung Max Leon Flemming in Hamburg’ in Der Cicerone, January 1922, illustrated p. 14 (as dating from 1910)
H.K. Roethel & J.K. Benjamin, Kandinsky. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, London, 1984, vol. I, no. 309, illustrated p. 291
P. Sers, Kandinsky. The Elements of Art, London, 2015, illustrated in colour pp. 64-65