Lot 436
  • 436

Wassily Kandinsky

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Wassily Kandinsky
  • Zeichnung nach 'Mitwirken' (Drawing after 'Collaboration')
  • Signed with the monogram and dated 30 (lower left); also signed, dated and titled on the reverse of the mount
  • India ink on paper laid down on card
  • 7 1/8 by 8 3/4 in.
  • 18 by 22.2 cm

Provenance

Worthington Gallery, Chicago
Geoffrey Rappaport, Michigan (sold: Sotheby's, New York, September 30, 1999, lot 116)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings, Catalogue Raisonné, vol.1, Munich, 2006, no. 745

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper laid down on card. Card is T-hinged to a window mat. 1/4-inch mat stain around perimeter of sheet. Sheet is time-darkened. Minor surface dirt. Minor losses to card at several spots along top edge, presumably a result of tape removal. Significant tape residue and associated loss around perimeter of card on verso. Good condition.
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