Lot 345
  • 345

Wassily Kandinsky

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Wassily Kandinsky
  • Ohne titel (Untitled)
  • Signed with the artist's monogram and dated 23 (lower left)
  • Pen and ink on paper
  • 14 1/4 by 14 3/4 in.
  • 36.2 by 37.3 cm

Provenance

Nina Kandinsky, Paris
Acquired from the above

Literature

XXe Siècle, no. 27, Paris, December 1966, illustrated p. 105
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Munich, 2006, no. 542, illustrated p. 268

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is hinged to the mat at the upper corners. There is a tiny tear to the center of the top edge, and another to the lower right edge neither of which are visible when framed. Apart from a few faint flattened creases toward the corners and some light time-staining, the work is in very good condition.
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