Wassily Kandinsky

The artist (until at least 1926)

Nierendorf Gallery, New York (acquired by 1937; possibly acquired directly from the artist in 1926)

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (acquired from the above in January 1945)

Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet, New York, 20 October 1971, lot 12 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Milan (acquired at the above sale)

Matthiesen Gallery, London

Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich; Galerie Beyeler, Basel and Carlo Bilotti, Rome (acquired jointly from the above in May 1988)

Galerie Urban, Tokyo (acquired from the above in June 1988)

Private Collection, Tokyo (acquired from the above in September 1999)

Landau Fine Art, Montreal (acquired in April 2000)

Acquired from the above in 2000 by the present owner

The artist’s handlist II, no. 239 

Henry S. Francis, “A Retrospective Exhibition of Wassily Kandinsky,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 39, no. 9, November 1952, p. 228

“Kandinsky: Pioneer Non-Objectivist in a New Context,” The Art Digest, vol. 26, no. 12, 15 March 1952, p. 12, illustrated

Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, New York, 1958, no. 131, p. 360, illustrated; p. 334

Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, 1916-1944, vol. II, Ithaca, 1984, no. 680, p. 635, illustrated

Annegret Hoberg, Victor Swoboda and Robert Landau, Murnau: The Birthplace of Abstract Expressionism, Montreal, 2023, p. 138, illustrated

Berlin, Galerie Goldschmidt-Wallerstein, Kandinsky, 1922

Munich, Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, W. Kandinsky, 1922, no. 6

Stockholm, Gummesons Konsthandel, Kandinsky, 1922, no. 8

Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1923

Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, 1924

Wiesbaden, Neues Museum, Nassauischer Kunstverein und Wiesbadener Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Wassili Kandinsky, 1925, no. 1

Barmen, Ruhmeshalle; Bochum, Gemäldegalerie and Dusseldorf, Galerie Nierendorf, Gemälde, Aquarelle und grafische Arbeiten, 1925

Dresden, Galerie Arnold and Berlin, Galerie Neumann und Nierendorf, Kandinsky Jubiläums-Ausstellung zum 60. Geburtstage, 1926, no. 13 (titled Mit Weissem Oval)

New York, Nierendorf Gallery; Cleveland Museum of Art and Cambridge, The Germanic Museum, Harvard University, Kandinsky: A Retrospective View, 1937, no. 20 (titled Composition 239)

New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Works by Kandinsky: A Retrospective Show, 1942-43, n.n. 

New York, Museum of Non-Objective Paintings, In Memory of Wassily Kandinsky, 1945, no. 42, p. 105

Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; New York, M. Knoedler and Co, Inc; San Francisco Museum of Art and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Kandinsky Retrospective, 1952, no. 31 (Boston); no. 32 (Minneapolis)

Los Angeles, University of California, 1953-54 (on extended loan)

Atlanta, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1954-55 (on extended loan)

Sioux Falls, Augustana College, 1955-56 (on extended loan)

Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, 1956-57 (on extended loan)

Towson, Goucher College, 1958 (on extended loan)

San Antonio, Witte Memorial Museum, 1958-59 (on extended loan)

Greencastle, DePauw University, 1959-60 (on extended loan)

Delaware, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1960 (on extended loan)

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger: 3 Bauhaus Painters, 1970, n.n.

Museum of Albuquerque, American Portrait, 1977

Northridge, California State University, Fundamental aspects of Modernism, 1977, no. 23, illustrated in color 

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Kunsthaus Zürich, Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus Years, 1915-1933, 1983-84, no. 40, p. 24; p. 116, illustrated (New York); no. 33, p. 22; p. 98, illustrated (Zurich)

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection and New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence: Painting with White Border, 2011-12, p. 37; pl. 43, p. 102, illustrated in color; p. 128