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Property from a Private French Collection

Wassily Kandinsky

Lyrisch (Lyrical)

Auction Closed

May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

Estimate

900,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private French Collection

Wassily Kandinsky

1866 - 1944


Lyrisch (Lyrical)

signed with the monogram and dated 23 (lower left); dated 1923. and numbered No 91. (on the verso)

gouache, watercolor and pen and ink on paper

14 ½ by 14 ¼ in. 36.8 by 36.2 cm.

Executed in July 1923.

Galka E. Scheyer, Los Angeles, (on consignment from the artist 1933-45)
Nina Kandinsky, Paris (until May 1956)
Louis Clayeux, Paris (acquired in 1956)
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Acquired from the above circa 1992-94 by the present owner

Weimar, Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar and Landesmuseum, Bauhausausstellung, 1923
Berlin, Juryfreie Ausstellung, 1923
Vienna, Neue Galerie, Russische Kunstausstellung, 1924
Dresden, Graphisches Kabinett Hugo Erfurth and Erfurt, Angermuseum, Kunstverein, Sieben Bauhausmeister, 1925
Barmen, Ruhmeshalle, Stuttgart, Kunsthaus Schaller, Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft and Hamburg, Kunstsalon Maria Kunde, Meister des staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar, 1925-26
Oakland, California, The Oakland Art Gallery and Los Angeles Museum (and traveling), The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, 1926-27, no. 7 (Oakland); no. 69 (Los Angeles) (titled Lyrci and dated 1922)
Halle, Roter Turm, Hallischer Kunstverein and Städtisches Museum Moritzburg, Kandinsky, 1929
Los Angeles Museum, The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, 1933, no. 109 (titled Lyrical Construction
Oakland, California, The Oakland Art Gallery, Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, the “Old Master” of Abstract Art, 1935
San Francisco Museum of Art, Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky: A Survey 1923 to Present, 1939
Los Angeles, Stendahl Art Galleries, Kandinsky, 1940
Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, New York, 1958, p. 186
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, vol. II, Ithaca, 1994, no. 644, p. 70, illustrated