Modern Renaissance: A Cross-Category Sale
Modern Renaissance: A Cross-Category Sale
Property from an Important Private European Collector | 重要歐洲私人收藏
Wassily Kandinsky
Quadrat (Square) | 《方形》
Auction Closed
March 25, 08:05 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private European Collector
重要歐洲私人收藏
Wassily Kandinsky
瓦西里・康丁斯基
1866 - 1944
Quadrat (Square)
《方形》
signed with the monogram and dated 27 (lower left)
款識：藝術家簽姓名縮寫並紀年27（左下）
oil on canvas
油彩畫布
73 by 60cm., 28¾ by 23⅝in.
73 x 60 公分；28 ¾ x 23 ⅝ 英寸
Painted in 1927.
1927年作
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Nina Kandinsky, Paris (the artist's wife)
Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired from the above in 1961)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1972)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired from the above in 1961)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1972)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The Artist's Handlist IV, no. 377
W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky. Life and Work, London, 1959, no. 246, illustrated p. 369
Maeght Éditeur, Derrière le miroir. Kandinsky 1921-1927, no. 118, Paris, 1960, illustrated in colour on the cover
P. Overy, Kandinsky. The Language of the Eye, London, 1969, no. 47, illustrated n.p.
H.K. Roethel & Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, Volume Two, 1916-1944, New York, 1984, no. 820, illustrated p. 761
J. Hahl-Koch, Kandinsky, London, 1993, no. 352, illustrated p. 291
W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky. Life and Work, London, 1959, no. 246, illustrated p. 369
Maeght Éditeur, Derrière le miroir. Kandinsky 1921-1927, no. 118, Paris, 1960, illustrated in colour on the cover
P. Overy, Kandinsky. The Language of the Eye, London, 1969, no. 47, illustrated n.p.
H.K. Roethel & Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, Volume Two, 1916-1944, New York, 1984, no. 820, illustrated p. 761
J. Hahl-Koch, Kandinsky, London, 1993, no. 352, illustrated p. 291
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art; Portland, Portland Art Museum; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; Colorado Springs, Fine Arts Center; Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art; Columbus, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; St. Louis, Washington University Art Gallery; Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts & Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, Vasily Kandinsky. A Retrospective Exhibition, 1963-64, no. 39, illustrated in the catalogue
Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Centenaire Kandinsky, 1966, no. 49, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Kandinsky, The Bauhaus Years, 1966, no. 19, illustrated in the catalogue
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky: Gemälde 1900-1944, 1970, no. 70, illustrated in the catalogue
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Wassily Kandinsky - Paul Klee, 1971-72, no. 18 (exhibition catalogue published in Louisiana Revy, October 1971, illustrated p. 11)
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Wassily Kandinsky. Rétrospective, 1972, no. 25, illustrated in the catalogue
Zurich, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky, 1972, no. 16, illustrated in the catalogue
Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Centenaire Kandinsky, 1966, no. 49, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Kandinsky, The Bauhaus Years, 1966, no. 19, illustrated in the catalogue
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky: Gemälde 1900-1944, 1970, no. 70, illustrated in the catalogue
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Wassily Kandinsky - Paul Klee, 1971-72, no. 18 (exhibition catalogue published in Louisiana Revy, October 1971, illustrated p. 11)
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Wassily Kandinsky. Rétrospective, 1972, no. 25, illustrated in the catalogue
Zurich, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky, 1972, no. 16, illustrated in the catalogue