Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
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July 29, 02:24 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
WASSILY KANDINSKY
1866 - 1944
MADONNA UND KIND (MADONNA AND CHILD)
inscribed with the artist's mathematical inscriptions on the verso
watercolour, gouache and pen and ink on paper
Image: 21.5 by 19.4cm., 8½ by 7⅝in.
Sheet: 26.5 by 22.1cm., 10½ by 8¾in. Framed: 53.8 by 43.9cm., 21⅛ by 17¼in.
Executed circa 1917.
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Private Collection, Russia
Karl Flinker, Paris (by 1989)
Galerie Pierre Brullé, Paris
Sale: Salle Rossini, Paris, 25th June 2019, lot 88
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Vivian Endicott Barnett, “Fairy Tales and Abstraction: Stylistic Conflits in Kandinsky's Art 1915-1921”, in New Perspectives on Kandinsky, Malmö, 1990, pp. 99-109, illustrated p. 94 (titled Madonna och barn)
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Volume One: 1900-1921, London, 1992, no. 484, illustrated in black and white p. 425; illustrated in colour p. 432
Jelena Hahl-Fontaine, Kandinsky, Brussels, 1993, n.n., illustrated in colour p. 258
Andros, Fondation Basil et Elise Goulandris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Wassily Kandsinky, 1989, n.n.
Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen & Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kandinsky, Kleine Freuden, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, 1992, no. 60