A Night in May: The Collection of Adele & Enrico Donati
Wassily Kandinsky
Rote Tiefe (Red Depth)
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12,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD
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A Night in May: The Collection of Adele & Enrico Donati
Wassily Kandinsky
(1866 - 1944)
Rote Tiefe (Red Depth)
signed with the monogram and dated 25 (lower left)
oil on canvas
39 by 32 in.
100 by 81.3 cm.
Executed in June 1925.
Alex Maguy (Galerie de l'Elysée), Paris
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York and Jacques Lindon, New York (acquired jointly from the above on 10 May 1960)
Musée de l'Athénée (Robert Rey and Maggy Bondanini), Geneva
Acquired from the above on 10 November 1960 by the present owner
Kunsthaus Zürich, Internationale Kunstausstellung, 1925, no. 221, p. 13
New York, Brooklyn Museum and Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, International Exhibition of Modern Art assembled by the Société Anonyme, 1926-27, no. 191 (titled Rote Tiefe, No. 316)
The artist’s handlist II, no. 316
Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, New York, 1958, no. 316, p. 335; p. 366, illustrated
Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, vol. II, Ithaca, 1984, no. 759, p. 713, illustrated
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