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Wassily Kandinsky

Schluss (Conclusion)

Auction Closed

March 2, 03:45 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Wassily Kandinsky

1866 - 1944


Schluss (Conclusion)

signed K and dated 26 (lower left); signed K, titled, dated 1926 and numbered 360 on the reverse

oil on board

80.5 by 38.1cm., 31¾ by 15in.

Framed: 109 by 73.2cm., 427/8 by 283/4in.

Painted in 1926.

Nina Andreevskaya, Paris (wife of the artist; until at least 1946) 

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Adrien Maeght, Paris (acquired before 1984. Sold: Sotheby's, London, 30th June 1987, lot 66)

Private Collection, Geneva (purchased at the above sale. Sold: Sotheby's, Paris, 3rd June 2010, lot 37)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Stuttgart, Kunsthaus Schaller, Kandinsky, 1928, no. 3674 (possibly)
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Braque-Kandinsky-Picasso, 1946, no. 55
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum & The Hague, Gemeente Museum, Kandinsky, 1947-48, no. 40
Bern, Kunsthalle, Gesamtausstellung Wassily Kandinsky, 1955, no. 48
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky: Gemälde 1900-1944, 1970, no. 69, illustrated in the catalogue
Zurich, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky, Ölbilder, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, 1972, no. 11
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Kandinsky 1923-1944, 1978, no. 6
Venice, Progetto Venezia, 3. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, 1985, no. 111 (possibly)
The Artist's Handlist, vol. IIno. 360
Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life & Work, London, 1959, no. 235, illustrated p. 369
Hans K. Roethel & Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue raisonné of the oil paintings, London, 1984, vol. II, no. 803, illustrated p. 747 (with incorrect height)
Jelena Hahl-Koch, Kandinsky, London, 1993, illustrated in colour p. 287