Wassily Kandinsky

signed with the artist's monogram and dated 39 (lower left); signed with the artist's monogram, numbered 661 and dated 1939 (on the verso)

89 by 116 cm. 35 by 45 ¾ in.

Nina Kandinsky, Paris

Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired from the above between 1952-55)

Gustav Zumsteg, Zurich (acquired from the above on 14 June 1969)

Christie’s, London, 6 April 1976, lot E (consigned by the above)

Davlyn Gallery, New York

Private Collection (acquired circa 1980 and until 1996)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired in 1996)

Sotheby’s, New York, 12 November 2018, lot 4 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie René Drouin, 40 Peintures de Kandinsky, 1946, no. 19

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, 1946, no. 89

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and The Hague, Gemeente Museum, Kandinsky, 1947-48, no. 82

Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Kandinsky, Époque Parisienne 1934-1944, 1949, no. 34

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Rythmes et Couleurs, 1951, no. 14

Bern, Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky, 1955, no. 93

Lausanne, Palais de Beaulieu, Chefs-d’oeuvre des Collections Suisses de Manet à Picasso, 1964, no. 323, illustrated in the catalogue

Zurich, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky, 1972, no. 58

Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Hommage de Paris à Kandinsky, 1972, no. 43, illustrated in the catalogue

Venice, Arsenale, XLII Esposizione international d’arte. La Biennale di Venezia, 1986, no. 4, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Verona, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Forti, Vasilij Kandinskij, 1993, no. 86, illustrated in colour in the catalogue 

Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Wassily Kandinsky: The Color of Abstraction, 1999, n.n., illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Vassily Kandinsky. Rétrospective, 2001, no. 106, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

London, The Courtauld Gallery, 2002-18 (on loan)

The artist’s handlist IV, no. 66I

Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, London, 1959, no. 661, p. 313, illustrated

Paul Overy, Kandinsky, The Language of the Eye, London, 1969, pl. 66, illustrated in colour

Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, vol. II, London, 1982, no. 1099, p. 992, illustrated

Judi Freeman, The Fridart Collection: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Modern Masterworks, London, 1998, p. 132, illustrated in colour

The Courtauld Institute of Art, ed., The 20th Century at the Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, 2002, p. 58, illustrated in colour