Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale

WASSILY KANDINSKY | OHNE TITEL (UNTITLED)

Auction Closed

June 29, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

WASSILY KANDINSKY

1866 - 1944

OHNE TITEL (UNTITLED)

Signed with the artist's monogram and dated 34 (lower left)

Pen and ink on paper laid down on card

9 by 13¾ in. (21 by 32 cm)

Framed: 22½ by 26½ in. (57.2 by 67.3 cm)

Executed in 1934.

Sale: Klipstein und Kornfeld, Bern, April 21, 1956, lot 78

Eugene V. Thaw, New York

James Wise, Geneva

Berggruen & Cie, Paris (acquired in 1959)

Galerie Maeght, Paris

B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago

Mary McFadden, New York

Donna Schneier Inc., New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1976 and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 5, 2009, lot 193)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Munich, 2006, no. 961, illustrated p. 452