WASSILY KANDINSKY | OHNE TITEL (KOMPOSITION) (UNTITLED (COMPOSITION))

Auction Closed

July 28, 08:20 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE: A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION

WASSILY KANDINSKY

1866 - 1944

OHNE TITEL (KOMPOSITION)

(UNTITLED (COMPOSITION))

watercolour, ink and pencil on paper

25 by 33.3cm., 9⅞ by 13⅛in.

Executed circa 1914-1915.

Mrs R.A.D. Ford, Switzerland (sold: Sotheby’s, London, 29th November 1972, lot 77)

Private Collection, Japan (purchased at the above sale)

Acquavella Galleries, New York

Sale: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 1st-3rd June 1978, lot 615

Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Acquired from the above in 1978

V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours. Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1992, vol. I, no. 387, illustrated p. 347

Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen & Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Kandinsky: Small Pleasures. Watercolors and Drawings, 1992, no. 37, illustrated in colour in the catalogue