Wassily Kandinsky

Lustiges Gelb (Cheerful Yellow)

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Property from a Private European Collection

Wassily Kandinsky

1866 - 1944

Lustiges Gelb (Cheerful Yellow)

signed with the monogram and dated 29 (lower left)

oil on canvas

35 x 25 cm; 13¾ x 9⅞ in.

Executed in February 1929.

Private collection

Marlborough Fine Art, London (acquired from the above in March 1969)

Private collection, Spain (acquired from the above in October 1969)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, New York, 1958, no. 450, p. 337, listed; no. 306, p. 374, illustrated

Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, 1916-1944, vol. II, London, 1984, no. 894, p. 822, illustrated

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