
Poids monté
Session begins in
May 20, 03:00 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Bid
1,300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Wassily Kandinsky
1866 - 1944
Poids monté
signed with the artist’s monogram, dated 1935 and numbered n. 611 (on the reverse)
oil and tempera on canvas
23 ⅝ by 28 ½ in.
60 by 72.4 cm.
Executed in February 1935.
Emile Redon, Paris
Galerie Motte, Geneva, 15 October 1960, lot 212
Galerie Tarica, Paris
Davlyn Gallery, New York
Christie’s, New York, 15 May 1979, lot 60
Galleria Internazionale, Milan (acquired by 1984)
E.J. Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam
Private Collection, Japan
Acquired from the above in the 1990s by the present owner
London, O’Hana Gallery, French Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1959
The artist’s handlist IV, no. 611
Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, New York, 1958, no. 611, pp. 340 and 386, illustrated
Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings 1916-1944, vol. II, London, 1984, no. 1049, pp. 941 and 946, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Kandinsky in Paris: 1934-1944, 1985, p. 39
Jean-Claude Marcadé, Calder, Paris, 1996, p. 93
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