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Wassily Kandinsky

Zwei schwarze Streifen (Two Black Stripes)

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A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection 

Wassily Kandinsky

(1866 - 1944)


Zwei schwarze Streifen (Two Black Stripes)

signed with the artist’s monogram and dated 30 (lower left); signed again, numbered No 540, dated and titled in German and French (on the reverse)

oil and Ripolin on board 

19 ⅛ by 27 ½ in. 

48.5 by 70 cm.

Executed in December 1930.

Nina Kandinsky, Paris

Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired from the above in October 1955 and until at least 1976)

Christie’s, New York, 13 May 1980, lot 63

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Cahiers d’Art, Wassily Kandinsky, 1934

Kunsthalle Bern, Wassily Kandinsky, Französische Meister der Gegenwart, 1937, no. 44

London, Guggenheim Jeune, Wassily Kandinsky, 1938, no. 33

Kunsthaus Zürich, George Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, 1946, no. 67

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; The Hague, Gemeentemuseum and Paris, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky: Bauhaus de Dessau, 1927-33, 1948, no. 39, illustrated in color

New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Kandinsky: The Bauhaus Years, 1966, no. 41, illustrated in color (in incorrect orientation)

Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Kandinsky Centenaire, 1966, no. 71, n.p., illustrated

Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Wassily Kandinsky, 1970, no. 111, illustrated

Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum, Wassily Kandinsky–Paul Klee, 1971-72, no. 26

Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Wassily Kandinsky: Rétrospective, 1972, no. 32

Zurich, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky, 1972, no. 28

Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Kandinsky, 1976, no. 25, n.p., illustrated

London, Achim Moeller Gallery, Fifteen Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, 1978, no. 10

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, The Long Island Collections, A Century of Art: 1880-1980, 1982, no. 34, illustrated

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island Collections, 1993

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Twentieth Century Exiles: Artists Fleeing Hitler’s Oppression, 2001-02, n.n., p. 9, illustrated in color; p. 34

The artist’s handlist IV, no. 540

Christian Zervos, “Notes sur Kandinsky à propos de sa récente exposition à la Galerie des ‘Cahier d’Art,’” Cahiers d’Art, 1934, p. 154

Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, New York, 1958, no. 385, p. 339; p. 381, illustrated

Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, vol. II, Ithaca, 1984, no. 985, p. 891, illustrated