Wassily Kandinsky

Linienbrücke (Bridge of Lines)

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500,000 - 700,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Collection

Wassily Kandinsky

1866 - 1944

Linienbrücke (Bridge of Lines)

signed with the artist’s monogram and dated 23 (lower left)

watercolour and pen and ink on paper

40.6 by 31cm., 16 by 12¼in.

Painted in October 1923.

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瓦西里・康丁斯基

1866 - 1944年

《線之橋》

款識：藝術家簽姓名縮寫並紀年23（左下）

水彩及鋼筆墨水紙本

40.6 x 31 公分；16 x 12¼ 英寸

1923年10月作

Galka E. Scheyer, Los Angeles (on commission from the artist from 1924 and until the late 1930s)

Nina Kandinsky, Paris

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in 1972)

Galerie Berggruen, Paris (acquired from the above in 1972)

The Lefevre Gallery, London

Takashimaya Ltd., Osaka

Private Collection (acquired in 1973)

Thence by descent to the present owner

The Artist's Handlist, Watercolours, listed as 'x, 1923, 99, Linienbrücke'
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky. Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, New York, 1994, no. 653, illustrated p. 86