Property from an Important Private Canadian Collection
Wassily Kandinsky
Aufstieg (Ascent)
Auction Closed
May 17, 10:38 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Canadian Collection
Wassily Kandinsky
1866 - 1944
Aufstieg (Ascent)
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 24 (lower left); titled, dated 1924 and inscribed No 132 (on the reverse of the mount)
watercolor and pen and ink on paper mounted on artist's board
sheet: 12⅝ by 9 in. (32 by 23 cm.)
mount: 18⅛ by 14¼ in. (46 by 36.2 cm.)
Executed in April 1924.
Erich Scheyer, Brunswick (acquired from the artist by December 1924)
Scheyer Family, England (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie's, London, 29 June 1982, lot 168 (consigned by the above)
Helen Serger (La Boëtie), New York (until 1983)
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York (acquired by 1984)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Scheyer Family, England (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie's, London, 29 June 1982, lot 168 (consigned by the above)
Helen Serger (La Boëtie), New York (until 1983)
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York (acquired by 1984)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, 1924
Berlin, Graphisches Kabinett, no. 26
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Painters of the Bauhaus, 1962, no. 59
New York, Helen Serger (La Boëtie), Accrochage, 1983, illustrated in color
New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, Kandinsky: Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932, 1984, illustrated in color
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis, 1991, no. 285, pp. 555-56, illustrated in color (titled Ascension)
Berlin, Graphisches Kabinett, no. 26
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Painters of the Bauhaus, 1962, no. 59
New York, Helen Serger (La Boëtie), Accrochage, 1983, illustrated in color
New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, Kandinsky: Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932, 1984, illustrated in color
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis, 1991, no. 285, pp. 555-56, illustrated in color (titled Ascension)
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonné 1922-1944, vol. II, London 1994, no. 689, p. 103, illustrated
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