Lot 135
  • 135

Wassily Kandinsky

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description

  • Wassily Kandinsky
  • Radierung 1916 - No. I (R. 153)
  • lithograph
  • plate: 122 by 135mm 4 3/4 by 5 1/4 in
  • sheet: 328 by 383mm 12 7/8 by 15 1/8 in
The rare drypoint printed in dark brown, 1916, signed in pencil, dated, titled, numbered No. 9 (total edition was ten), on cream wove paper, framed

Condition

With wide margins (larger than those stated in Roethel), in good condition, very pale light- and mount-staining (the window of light-staining very slightly rubbed), a few small soft handling creases in the margins, extreme upper sheet edge with minute creasing, framed.
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