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Wassily Kandinsky

Schwacher Bogen (Weak Arc)

Lot Closed

November 19, 07:03 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Wassily Kandinsky

1866 - 1944

Schwacher Bogen (Weak Arc)


Signed with the artist's monogram and dated 29 (lower left); signed with the artist's monogram, titled, numbered no. 335 and dated 1929 (on the verso)

Watercolor and pen and ink on paper mounted on card

19 5/8 by 10 1/4 in. (50 by 26 cm)

Framed: 27 1/4 by 17 1/2 in. (69.2 by 44.5 cm)

Executed in February 1929. 

Anatole Jakovski, Paris (acquired in February 1935)
Fernand Graindorge, Liège
Heinz Berggruen, Paris (acquired in 1955)
Kleeman Galleries, New York (acquired in 1956)
Dr. Robert Schnell, Zurich
Sale: Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, May 24, 1962, lot 80
Galerie Berggruen, Paris
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The artist's handlist, no. 335
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, 1922-1944, vol. II, London, 1994, no. 926, illustrated p. 246
Halle, Roter Turm, Hallischer Kunstverein & Städtisches Museum, Alte Garnisonskirche and Roter Turm, 1929, n.n.