Lot 218
  • 218

Wassily Kandinsky

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Wassily Kandinsky
  • OHNE TITEL (UNTITLED)
  • signed with the monogram and dated 41 (lower left)
  • pen and ink on paper
  • 27.8 by 18.6cm., 11 by 7 3/8 in.

Provenance

Nina Kandinsky, Paris (the artist's wife)
Galeria Juana Mordo, Madrid
De la Sierra Collection, Madrid (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Karl Flinker, Kandinsky: peintures, dessins, gravures, éditions, œuvres inédites, 1972 

Literature

Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings, Catalogue Raisonné, Individual Drawings, Munich, 2006, vol. I, no. 1153, illustrated p. 521

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, attached to a sheet of paper at all four corners, attached to the mount in all four corners, floating in the mount. There are 5 perforations to the left edge, intrinsic to the support. This work is in very good condition. Colours: The paper tone is warmer and the pen more strident in the original.
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