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Property from an Important European Collection

Wassily Kandinsky

Flächen und Linien (Surfaces and Lines)

Auction Closed

March 2, 03:45 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Wassily Kandinsky

1866 - 1944


Flächen und Linien (Surfaces and Lines)

signed with the monogram and dated 30 (lower left); signed with the monogram, titled, dated 1930 and numbered No. 522 on the reverse

oil on board

49.5 by 70.7cm., 191/2 by 273/4

Framed: 64 by 85.5cm., 251/4 by 335/8in.

Painted in June 1930.

Galka Scheyer, Los Angeles
Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired by 1953)
Private Collection, Paris (acquired by 1970)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in January 1972)
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris (acquired from the above in February 1973)
Sale: Christie's, London, 5th December 1978, lot 43
Davlyn Gallery, New York (acquired by 1984)
Sale: Christie's, London, 23rd June 2004, lot 252
Private Collection, Switzerland (purchased at the above sale. Sold: Christie's, London, 23rd June 2009, lot 26)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
The artist's handlist, vol. IV, no. 522
Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, London, 1959, no. 369, illustrated p. 380
Hans K. Roethel & Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, London, 1984, vol. II, no. 967, illustrated p. 879