Wassily Kandinsky

Schwarz Gesteigert (Black Increasing)

Auction Closed

March 6, 07:55 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Wassily Kandinsky

1866 - 1944

Schwarz Gesteigert (Black Increasing)

signed with the monogram and dated 27 (lower left)

oil on canvas

60 by 50 cm. 23 ⅝ by 19 ¾ in.

Executed in January 1927.

Mayor Gallery, London (acquired from the artist in 1933)

J. B. Neumann, New York (acquired from the above on 11 November 1935)

G. David and Helene S. Thompson, Pittsburgh (acquired from the above by 1958)

Harold Diamond, New York

Galleria Galatea, Turin

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above by 1984)

Thence by descent to the present owners

The Artist's Handlist, vol. IV, no. 373

Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, New York, 1958, p. 213, illustrated in colour

Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, vol. II, London, 1984, no. 816, p. 757, illustrated

Museum of Albuquerque, Early Twentieth Century European Masterpainters, 1977, no. 25, n.p., illustrated in colour