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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 6, 2013 | Sotheby's | Paris | Art Impressionniste & Moderne | 22 | $****** - ****** | Blauer Kreis No. 2 (Cercle Bleu II) |
paintings
60.9 x 41.5 cm (23.98 x 16.34 in)
oil on board
signed with the artist's monogram K and dated 25 (lower left) ; signed with the artist's monogram K, dated 1925, titled Blauer Kreis and numbered 289 on the reverse
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
Sale : Me Guy Loudmer, Paris, Collection de Madame Bourdon et à divers amateurs, 25th March 1990, lot 43
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Oakland, Oakland Art Gallery, Kandinsky, 1929, (probably) no. 32 Los Angeles, Braxton Gallery, The Blue Four, Kandinsky, 1930, (probably) no. 5 Lucerne, Galerie Rosengart, Kandinsky Exhibition : Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings, 1953, no. 2 Paris, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky de 1921 à 1927, 1960, no. 11 Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky : Gemälde 1900-19244, 1970, no. 57 Humlebaek, Louisiana, Wassily Kandinsky – Paul Klee, 1971-1972, no. 15 Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Wassily Kandinsky, Rétrospective, 1972, no. 21 Zürich, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky : Ölbilder, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, 1972, no. 7 Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Kandinsky, 1978, no. 2 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Wassily Kandinsky : Rétrospective, 2001, no. 76 Biot, Musée national Fernand Léger ; Nice, Musée national Marc Chagall & Vallauris, Musée national Pablo Picasso, Exils : Réminiscences et nouveaux mondes, 2012, no. 71
Livre de raison II, no. 289; Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, New York, 1958, p. 335, illustrated fig. 176, p. 364; Hans K. Roethel & Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, London, 1984, vol. II : 1916-1944, no. 732, illustrated p. 688; Jelena Hahl-Koch, Kandinsky, New York, 1993, no. 343, illustrated p. 286
