Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg
Wassily Kandinsky
Anfang (Beginning)
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May 14, 01:12 AM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
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Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg
Wassily Kandinsky
(1866 - 1944)
Anfang (Beginning)
signed with the monogram and dated 25 (lower left); signed again, titled, dated 1925., numbered No 358 and inscribed 40 x 31. (on the reverse)
oil on board
12 ⅜ by 16 in. 31.3 by 40.5 cm.
Executed in 1925.
Nina Kandinsky, Neuilly
Acquired by 1995 by the present owner
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Klee und Kandinsky, 1979
Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Kandinsky nelle collezioni Svizzere, 1995, no. 34; pp. 31 and 190; p. 191, illustrated in color
Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus; Wuppertal, Von de Heydt-Museum; Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister and Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, El Greco bis Mondrian, 1996, n.n., p. 226; p. 227, illustrated in color
Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee and Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Klee & Kandinsky. Nachbarn, Freunde, Konkurrenten, 2015-16
The artist’s handlist II, no. 358
Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, London, 1959, nos. 358 and 233, p. 336; p. 368, illustrated (dated 1926)
Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, vol. II, New York, 1984, no. 765, p. 717, illustrated
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