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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 4, 2015 | Christie's | London | Impressionist / Modern Evening Sale | 37 | $****** - ****** | Ernst - Spass |
paintings
49 x 70 cm (19.29 x 27.56 in)
oil on board
signed with the monogram and dated '30' (lower left); signed with the monogram, dated, numbered and inscribed 'No. 514 1930 „Ernstspass"' (on the reverse)
Nina Kandinsky, Paris, until at least 1948.Galerie Maeght, Paris.Heinz Berggruen, Paris.
Private collection, Germany, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Kandinsky, February 1931, no. 56.Paris, Galerie Cahiers d'Art, Wassily Kandinsky, May 1934.Bern, Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky: französische Meister der Gegenwart, February - March 1937, no. 43.London, Guggenheim Jeune, Kandinsky, 1938, no. 28.London, New Burlington Gallery, Modern German Art, July 1938, no. 78. Zurich, Kunsthaus, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, September - October 1946, no. 63.Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Kandinsky, December 1947 - January 1948, no. 53 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to The Hague, Gemeente Museum, February - March 1948.Lucerne, Galerie Rosengart, Kandinsky: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, June - September 1953, no. 7.Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky, Gemälde 1900-1944, July - September 1970, no. 104 (illustrated). New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus Years, 1915-1933, December 1983 - February 1984, no. 288, p. 323 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Atlanta, High Museum of Art, March - April 1984; and Zurich, Kunsthaus, May - July 1984.
The artist's handlist, vol. IV, no. 514.W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, London, 1959, no. 514 (illustrated fig. 363, p. 379). H.K. Roethel & J.K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, vol. II, 1916-1944, London, 1984, no. 959, p. 873 (illustrated).
