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Wassily Kandinsky

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